New Zealand’s climate change solutions: an overview
It is our responsibility to act on climate change. We are a small country but our carbon footprint per capita is still significant.
Our greenhouse gas emissions are growing rapidly. In 2006 we produced 26 per cent more than in 1990. The sector with greatest growth in emissions (45 per cent) is the energy sector (mainly CO2 from transport and electricity generation).
Approximately half of our total greenhouse gas emissions are produced by agriculture (methane and nitrous oxide from farm animals).
Cutting our greenhouse gas emissions is part of our global responsibility.
New Zealand’s climate change solutions
New Zealand has sustainability – our path to carbon neutrality
