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)New Zealand is just not doing
enough to address climate change
needs, especially emissions
from agriculture, leading Kiwi
environmental tech company Zest
Biotech says.
The company’s chief technical officer
Nathan Balasingham says Zest
Biotech is presenting to parliament’s
climate change response (zero
carbon) amendment bill select
committee in Auckland tomorrow,
to assure the select committee that
New Zealand has the technology to
address emissions from agriculture.
Misinformation is backing farmers
into a corner and it seems New
Zealand is insisting they reduce
emissions but denying them the
tools to do so, Balasingham says.
“New Zealand can make a huge
difference and reduce its primary
sector carbon emissions by
addressing efficiency. Pollution is due
to resources being wasted – that
is urea and methane are wasted
protein and energy.
“If we utilise those resources to
produce more milk and meat, we
will reduce waste. We have invented
and developed Biozest, a pasture
spray that increases pasture and
ruminant productivity while reducing
urea excretion and greenhouse gas
emissions.
“Our work has been applauded
internationally, most recently at the
Greenhouse Gas Animal Agriculture
conference in Brazil, yet we have
been met with closed doors at home
in New Zealand.
“This year, New Zealand’s parliament
is considering the climate change
response (zero carbon) bill, which
would enshrine net zero carbon
emissions by 2050. Several local
councils have declared climate
emergencies. And young people
have joined the global movement
of school strikes to call for climate
action.
“According to a recent poll, four out
of five people in New Zealand are
increasingly concerned and think
of climate change as a personally
important issue.
“We will tell the select committee in
Auckland tomorrow that it’s time to
get behind solutions to the issue.
We have the technology to reduce
emissions from agriculture, without
reducing herd numbers or financially
crippling the industry and it can be
done now.
“Farmers can reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by looking at
new biotech solutions. We have
evidence that productivity can be
increased while significantly reducing
greenhouse gas emissions so
farmers can meet the targets set
by the government’s new climate
change bill.
“New Zealand should consider the
opportunity to earn carbon credits
by implementing some or all of the
recommendations of the UN’s Food
and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
to achieve a 37 percent reduction in
methane intensity
NZ FARMERS CAN REDUCE
EMISSIONS, INCREASE
PRODUCTION AND MEET TARGETS
20 SEPTEMBER 2019
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