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Published: 2019
Author: Suzi Kerr
Event: NZ Agricultural Climate Change Conference - April 2019
Mitigation through land-use change is slow – start now.
Forest expansion is the most price responsive mitigation option (to our knowledge) –extra 58,000 ha per year needed for high mitigation scenario. But this is not a permanent solution
A methane vaccine and 1 million ha more horticulture would have similar effects. But can we make them happen?
Impacts on production and employment don’t seem strong and could be good.
Ministry for Primary Industries, NZ Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre
Level 1, 97 Cuba Street, PO Box 24390
Wellington 6142, New Zealand
Phone: 64 4 939 4250