by frog
An NZPA story that I can’t yet find online has the Minister for Climate Change, David Parker, talking about the benefits that the preferential trade agreement with China might have for climate change:
However, Mr Parker said the FTA was a realistic platform for New Zealand to have an influence on China’s pollution.
“It is, particularly in areas where we’ve got strengths compared with them, for example we are the world leader in reducing emissions from livestock,” Mr Parker said.
I will be looking forward to the Minister’s advice on reducing livestock emissions given that New Zealand’s emissions from agriculture have risen 27% since 1990.
Perhaps the advice that Mr Parker will be giving Chinese officials might include how to convert forests and grain-based farms into dairy farms. Or maybe he will be showing them how to irrigate their rivers in way that reduces the water quality of their aquifers and the water flow in their rivers. Or perhaps he will be advising how to increase the levels of oil-based fertilisers and pesticides on their livestock farms as well as the oil and coal associated with production and transport of their dairy industry.
Published in Economy, Work, & Welfare | Environment & Resource Management by frog on Tue, April 8th, 2008
Tags: carbon emissions, China, climate change, David Parker, Free trade, livestock, Pollution
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i went to a meeting last night fwwog and Jeanette had nothing but praise for Chinese Government on raising standard of living in China and as well their climate thing, she said we NZ was worse by 4 times about our emmisions fwwog
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New Zealand already has an influence on China’s pollution – by exporting heaps of COAL to them.
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I rather suspect that when reality bites New Zealand will be seeking advice from China on combatting desertification. Large parts of NZ are already drought-prone and projected to get drier.
I also suspect that NZ’s wine industry could do a lot more for the development of rural China than NZ’s animal husbandry industry.
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