We have commissioned a new video which we believe will help explain why methane needs to be treated differently to CO2 and also spread the word a bit. It is a more enjoyable watch than our previous one so who knows it may go viral. One difficulty … [Read more...]
Productivity Commission submission
Submission to the NZ Productivity Commission draft report: Low-emissions economy. Robin Grieve Chairman Pastural Farming Climate Research Inc June 8 2018 Summary This submission is primarily concerned with the treatment of … [Read more...]
Meeting dates for carbon zero bill.
Sorry everybody I forgot to add the meeting dates on to my past post so here they are. I went to the first one in Whangarei last week. They are asking for comment on 3 options Option 1 Reduce CO2 emissions to net zero by 2050 but not … [Read more...]
Minister puts cart before the horse and misses the boat with brief for interim climate change committee.
Asking the interim climate change committee to look at ‘the full range of feasibility options for including agriculture in the NZ ETS’ is the wrong approach to dealing with livestock methane emissions. The Minister for Climate Change James Shaw’s … [Read more...]
Forestry Owners Association Throwing Farmers Under The Bus
“The Forestry Owners Association motives in calling for the inclusion of livestock emissions in to the ETS are driven by profit and not environmental concerns,” Robin Grieve Chairman of Pastural Farming Climate Research Inc said today. “The … [Read more...]
Carbon is not a fair measure of NZ’s greenhouse emissions
The NZ Herald published my article outlining the problems for farmers and New Zealand in the use of the scientifically unsound carbon unit. This is the link to the article. Here Or you can read it below. Carbon is not a fair … [Read more...]
The jury is in: Report Confirms Livestock emissions of methane are not causing global warming.
Pastural Farming Climate Research Inc was incorporated in 2009 to; Represent farmers’ interests by highlighting the many discrepancies and misinformation used in reports about the role livestock play in global warming To fund research to … [Read more...]
OECD Report Wrong to Criticise Us.
The just released OECD environmental report gave New Zealand a fail for amongst other things our per capita greenhouse gas emissions being among the highest in the world. Former New Zealand Environment Minister Simon Upton led the compilation of … [Read more...]
Paula Bennett misleads on Paris Agreement target,
In case you missed it I had an opinion piece published in the NZ Herald last week. It was in response to Paula Bennett (our new deputy PM) who as Climate Change Minister wrote an opinion piece for the NZ Herald in which she misled readers about the … [Read more...]
Methane from livestock, not the problem CO2 emissions are.
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research have published a paper which states that short lived greenhouse gases (like methane) are quite different to long-lived GHGs (like CO2) In the report Motu say To stabilise the climate, it is necessary to … [Read more...]
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