Yes, agriculture is harder, but NZ currently uses that as an excuse, which is not surprising given the govt’s position is to appear to be acting, while doing as little as possible. There is more we can reasonably do across the board. The world knows we have an unusual emissions profile. That isn’t the barrier to a meaningful policy, lack of good faith is.

I agree, though with NZ the fact that half of our emissions are methane from animals makes it difficult. We do need to do more in other areas though.

Thank you. 🙂

The last NZ prime minister (he resigned a few weeks ago) announced at a Pacific leaders meeting at the end of last year that if the US pulled out of TPP, there would be a gap waiting to be filled, and China would do it.

The whole idea of TPP was partly about the US pivot to the Asia-Pacific region, which is becoming the economic powerhouse of the world.

Shortly after the election debacle here in the “Land of the Stupid”, I opined to some friends that The Sociopath was going to pull us out of the Paris accord and the result would be: China, being acutely aware of the dangers of pollution in general, and being well positioned to overtake the US as the largest economy in the world, would then take the lead (that the US had) and rally the rest of the world to take action. The rest of the world would then impose a carbon tax on countries not complying with agreed upon standards and strongly punish the US for being such assholes. We’ll have to see what happens. “May you live in interesting times” is gaining new meaning every day.