A large delegation will represent New Zealand at the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland (December 1-13, 2008). These talks are a crucial next step on the road to Copenhagen (December 2009), where 190 nations will meet to decide on a historic deal to reduce global emissions. What needs to come out of Poznan, and what is New Zealand's role in it all?
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Half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture. Yet there are ways to bring these emissions down without hurting farmers’ bottom lines.
"There are two things people like to have. Some call them luxuries, but really, they're just what we've come to expect. One is time and one is choice. The challenge with climate change is that we have increasingly less of both. The science is clear, by 2015 we need to have stabilised the world's carbon emissions. By 2050 we should be operating a zero carbon economy. Can we do it?"
Dear Mr Kelly
Today, Greenpeace has replanted land at Tahorakuri Forest which Landcorp has converted from plantation forestry to industrial dairy, to start reversing the damage caused by Landcorp. In doing so we are demonstrating that the New Zealand Government and other political parties are talking big on climate change, but have failed to develop any policies to tackle emissions or halt the rapid expansion of the dairy sector.
A price on greenhouse gas emissions is one of a suite of tactics needed to tackle climate change. It creates an incentive for people to act in ways that minimise their greenhouse gas emissions and to make climate-friendly investments.
The New Zealand Government’s expansion of industrial dairy increasing climate change. Greenpeace has revealed through the Governments own figures and through investigative photo and video documentation the true extent of the expansion of industrial dairy farming currently underway in New Zealand.
Questions and Answers. Greenpeace revealed the extent of climate-damaging dairy conversion in New Zealand with an activity in the central North Island in which 30 volunteers replanted over 1000 trees on land cleared for dairy farming.
Man-made climate change is real and happening fast. Experts say it’s the single biggest threat civilisation has ever faced, and the first time a single issue has spanned people, species, countries and continents in this way.
While the Government has introduced some commendable climate initiatives, its policies do not go far enough and it is undermining any good work by allowing the expansion of high-polluting industries.
