{"id":51656,"date":"2022-04-12T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=51656"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:57:37","slug":"ag-still-tops-emissions-wheres-the-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/ag-still-tops-emissions-wheres-the-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture still tops emissions, so where\u2019s the action?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace says today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.govt.nz\/publications\/new-zealands-greenhouse-gas-inventory-1990-2020\/\">Greenhouse Gas Inventory<\/a> release from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) underlines, yet again, the case for halving the bloated dairy herd.<\/p>\n\n<p>The report shows that since 1990, New Zealand\u2019s gross emissions have increased by 21 per cent, and agriculture is the largest emissions contributor, at 50% of gross emissions.&nbsp;<br><br>Greenpeace Aotearoa lead agriculture campaigner Christine Rose says the report comes as no surprise, when we\u2019ve known for years that intensive dairying is driving agricultural emissions.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThis Government has not put in place a single climate regulation to reduce cow numbers. Dairy is our most polluting industry emitting more climate pollution than the entire energy sector. The only credible way to substantially cut agricultural emissions is to <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/agriculture-halve-the-dairy-herd\">halve the dairy herd<\/a>.\u201d said Rose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe failure to act on agriculture makes Ardern\u2019s climate change \u201cnuclear free moment\u201d empty rhetoric. Industrial dairy is New Zealand\u2019s biggest polluter because there are just too many cows and too much synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. The climate and biodiversity crisis requires the Ardern Government to reduce the size of NZ\u2019s grossly bloated huge dairy herd.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The latest Greenhouse Gas inventory showing dairying is New Zealand\u2019s largest emitter comes off the back of recent revelations that New Zealand officials argued to remove the term \u201cplant-based diet\u201d, from the IPCC summary despite it appearing in the report more than 50 times. It comes at a time when Minister for Climate Change James Shaw recently admitted to be \u2018bending over backwards\u2019 to accommodate the agricultural sector\u2019s excuses for climate inaction.<br><br>\u201cClimate Minister James Shaw must stop giving special treatment to the industrial dairy sector, and instead put the climate first. The latest IPCC report &#8211; and the greenhouse gas inventory, shows urgent action is needed, as agricultural &#8211; especially industrial dairy emissions continue to rise,\u201d said Rose<br><br>New Zealand is among the world\u2019s worst performing on carbon reduction and one of the highest emitters per capita. The IPCC report released last week highlighted the urgency of acting on agriculture by changing how we grow food.<br><br>\u201cA safer climate and cleaner, regenerative organic food system is right around the corner if our political leaders phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and invest in the regenerative organic farming revolution,\u201d said Rose.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-51438 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/halve-the-dairy-herd-petition\/\" 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