Farm Emissions: Australia, NZ Seeing Eye To Eye On Emissions
July 14th, 2010
NZ and Aust may not yet share a common currency, but the recent annual Closer Economic Relations meeting between the country’s respective agriculture ministers sees the Tasman Sea as an increasingly narrow piece of water. The meeting was over-shadowed by the then PM Kevin Rudd’s overthrow by Julia Gillard, but Agriculture and Forestry Minister David Carter says significant progress was made across a number of agricultural and food areas.
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Along with his Aust counterpart, Tony Burke, the Ministers noted the importance of agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation, and the increasing research collaboration between the two countries. Carter says the recently formed Global Research Alliance for Greenhouse Gases is an important vehicle for both countries and will help address the challenge of reducing emissions and increasing food production in a carbon constrained world. Two-way trade across the Tasman was $25bn in 2009, only slightly less than in 2008, despite the economic downturn. Carter says this trade will be further enhanced through mutual recognition and harmonisation of bio-security operations, which will remove barriers and improve efficiencies within systems. He also notes the Joint Food Standards Treaty enhancements came into being at the beginning of this month, further promoting the alignment and consistency of food standards developed and reviewed between the two countries.
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