Climate change
Climate change
Changes to the world climate resulting from greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity pose an acute threat to civilisation. Under the Paris Agreement, New Zealand is committed to playing its part in reducing emissions so that global temperatures do not increase by more than 1.5 deg C over pre-industrial levels.
Because the agriculture sector is the largest single source of NZ greenhouse gas emissions – about 48 per cent of the total – it needs to play its part in reducing emissions.