{"id":5492,"date":"2019-06-07T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:49:42","slug":"government-fails-on-dairy-and-climate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/government-fails-on-dairy-and-climate-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Government fails on dairy and climate again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has announced changes to the national dairy industry regulations (DIRA) but has kept a controversial legal requirement on Fonterra to pick up milk from new dairy conversions, angering Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p>The legal requirement on Fonterra to pick up milk from new conversions is known as the \u2018open-entry&#8217; requirement. Removing open-entry from the legislation had support from unlikely allies, Greenpeace and Fonterra itself.<\/p>\n<p>But the Government has decided to keep the open-entry requirement, adding a caveat that now allows Fonterra to refuse milk from a new conversion if it breaks their terms of supply.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace campaigner Gen Toop says this sadly reveals that, despite its rhetoric, this Government is failing to take the climate crisis seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the middle of a climate emergency. There cannot be a single new dairy farm added to New Zealand\u2019s already grossly bloated dairy herd. We urgently need fewer cows,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government should have at least made it easy for Fonterra to reject new industrial dairy conversions, including abominations like the mega-dairy farm in the fragile and iconic Mackenzie country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The environmental organisation says it has become increasingly disappointed with the coalition Government\u2019s failure to regulate dairy and agricultural pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince it took power in 2017 amid promises to clean up rivers and tackle climate change this Government has not put in place a single new piece of regulation to deal with New Zealand\u2019s biggest polluter &#8211; the dairy industry,\u201d said Toop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfe.govt.nz\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/Climate%20Change\/emissions-profile-infographic.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2019\/06\/3f181b22-nz-ghg-emissions-profile-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfe.govt.nz\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/Climate%20Change\/emissions-profile-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenhouse Gas Inventory<\/a> shows that the dairy industry is the single largest climate criminal in the country, emitting more climate pollution than the entire transport fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace is calling for fundamental changes to dairying in New Zealand including a major reduction in cow numbers and a ban on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"EmptyMessage\">Block content is empty. 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