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New Zealand proposes taxing farm animal emissions. The nation is home to some 10 million beef and dairy cattle and 26 million sheep, but just 5 million people. Posted October 11, 2022.
New Zealand's government on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. AP Photo/Mark ...
Lodestone Energy, New Zealand’s leading solar generation company, has already celebrated the launch of two agrivoltaic solar farms this year, and is nearing completion on a third. While New ...
New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. Farmers quickly condemned the plan.
More than a dozen calves wait at a research farm in New Zealand to be fed Kowbucha, a punnily named probiotic that studies show reduces burps -- or methane emissions. Skip to main content.
Agtech startup Halter has raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, making it one of New Zealand's rare unicorns as it ...
UK-based Harmony Energy, a renewable energy storage systems developer, will start construction on New Zealand's biggest solar farm after finalising the project's finances. The project is expected ...
New Zealand farmers, businesses and scientists are working on ways to cut emissions without reducing herd number. Agricultural products make up more than 75% of the country’s goods exports.
On New Zealand’s sparsely populated South Island, ... Flockhill Lodge is a four-bedroom homestead set within Flock Hill Station, a working sheep farm comprising 36,000 acres.
New Zealand farmers will start to pay a levy on agricultural emissions by 2025 -- a move Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said would be a world first.. The government will adopt the main ...
New Zealand is tightening rules on forest planting to exert more control on the amount of farmland being converted for either logging or carbon offset.
Meridian Energy has announced the full operation of the Harapaki wind farm in New Zealand with a capacity of 176MW. The wind farm in the Maungaharuru range in Hawke’s Bay will supply clean ...