Agricultural Emissions Mitigation in New Zealand: Answers to Questions from the Parliamentary Commisioner for the Environment

Suzi Kerr

No 16_16, Working Papers from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

Abstract: This paper explores how New Zealand should address agricultural greenhouse gas emissions: methane and nitrous oxide. The starting point is the internationally agreed-upon goal of limiting global warming to below two degrees, and New Zealand’s commitment to contribute its ‘fair share’ to the international climate-change mitigation effort. The report focuses on the role of mitigating biological agricultural emissions within that, and how New Zealand could most cost-effectively mitigate its own emissions and contribute to the mitigation of agricultural emissions abroad. This paper complements a partner paper (Hollis et al 2015) that discusses the science relating to agricultural greenhouse gases.

Keywords: Climate change; mitigation; agriculture; New Zealand; methane; nitrous oxide; livestock; metrics; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 72 pages
Date: 2016-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-env
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