THE QUEEN won’t eat our fish. Johnny Rotten is bad-mouthing our butter. Our dairy cows have been chomping palm kernel grown where orang-utans used to live. A consortium of 2000 scientists from 60 countries has written to the Prime Minister very worried about our sea lions.
The Prime Minister, in a public dialogue with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, yesterday told an Australasian climate change and business conference in Auckland that New Zealand could not risk being seen as a “dirty producer”.
New Zealand also risked having overseas consumers shun its products unless the country rose to the challenge of reducing its agricultural carbon emissions.
Climate Watch