New Zealand’s large agriculture industry means we put out a lot more methane, per capita, than most countries. New Zealand needs to be doing more to help curb climate change, experts say. And with global emissions of carbon dioxide unlikely to slow anytime soon, they are calling for more focus on reducing methane emissions and adapting to change already locked in by our past actions.
“Humanity is on thin ice, and that ice is melting fast,” UN secretary-general António Guterres said on Tuesday (NZ time), as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest in-depth look at the science. “The climate time bomb is ticking.”
“There’s a whole lot more that New Zealand could be doing,” he told RNZ’s Afternoons on Wednesday.
He said there is “not a lot” we can do to stop warming in the near future.
“There’s going to be, you know, very little curbing of global warming in the next 20 years…
New Zealand ranks near the top in terms of per capita greenhouse gas emissions.
The IPCC’s report stated the less methane the globe emits, the easier we can go on reducing carbon dioxide.
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