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Greenpeace has taken aim at the Minister for Climate Change and co-leader of the Green Party, James Shaw, over his recent comments regarding cow numbers in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace has been increasingly critical of Shaw over recent months, but things have escalated following Shaw’s Parliamentary question time denial of the need to reduce cow numbers.<\/p>\n\n

In the same week that Greenpeace launched a petition to halve the dairy herd, James Shaw answered Act MP Mark Cameron\u2019s question in Parliament on whether he agreed with the view that New Zealand did not need to reduce the herd size with an emphatic \u201cYes\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Shaw also stated that DairyNZ and Fonterra had \u201cgot with the programme\u201d on climate change. However, emissions from the dairy industry’s six million cows have yet to decline. In the 4 years of Shaw holding the Ministerial portfolio on climate change, emissions have continued to rise<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe are in a climate emergency, and intensive dairy is New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter, so it\u2019s alarming to hear our Minister for Climate Change deny that we need fewer cows,\u201d says Greenpeace Programme Director Niamh O\u2019Flynn.<\/p>\n\n

Shaw’s comments go against Green Party policy, and even the advice from the Climate Change Commission<\/a>, which recommended a reduction of the herd.<\/p>\n\n

When asked by Tova O\u2019Brien on Today FM whether the Emissions Reduction Plan due for release in May 2022 will have anything in it about reducing herd sizes, Shaw answered \u201cNo\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

\u201dWill James Shaw follow Scott Morrison\u2019s footsteps and bring a milk bottle into parliament next? Because like Morrison\u2019s attempt to protect Australia’s coal industry, it increasingly looks like our climate minister is more interested in protecting the dairy industry than the climate. In his own words, he is \u2018bending over backwards\u2019 for the agriculture sector\u201d said O\u2019Flynn.<\/p>\n\n

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report into potential techno-fixes to livestock emissions stated, \u201cthere is no silver bullet on the horizon.” The report made the point that fewer livestock would mean fewer emissions.<\/p>\n\n

On the recent release of the latest IPCC report, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said,  \u201cSome Government and business leaders are saying one thing, but doing another.  Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPETITION: Halve the dairy herd\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Call on the Government to halve the dairy herd to reduce the impacts on freshwater, biodiversity, climate and people\u2019s health.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t \n Take Action\n <\/a>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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