Search
Back to main menuNZ's Greenhouse emissions growing and carbon sinks contracting
Feb 28, 2018
New Zealand's first environmental accounts show greenhouse gas emissions rose slower than economic growth in the last 25 years, but the planting of forests to absorb carbon has slowed dramatically since 2013. Thomas Coughlan from Newsroom reports on where we're going wrong here (contains quotes from Catherine Leining).
Related Document
Working Paper
Are we turning a brighter shade of green? The relationship between household characteristics and greenhouse gas emissions from consumption in New Zealand (2015)Working Paper
Agricultural Emissions Mitigation in New Zealand: Answers to Questions from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (2016)Note
New Zealand’s freshwater reforms: what are the potential impacts on greenhouse gas emissions? (2017)>
Sign up for Motu updates and publications
Level 1, 97 Cuba Street, PO Box 24390
Wellington 6142, Aotearoa New Zealand
Media enquires: 021 837 966
Phone: 04 939 4250