Ella Bates-Hermans
Extreme weather brings rougher growing conditions, which can cause food shortages and price rises.
New Zealand pledged to spend $375 million reducing greenhouse emissions and protecting communities in vulnerable countries.
But according to official documents reviewed by Stuff, some of that cash promoted planet-heating dairy and meat farming.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade funded projects to establish dairy farming in Fiji and Myanmar. Between 2015 and 2020, it also funded work to intensify meat or milk production in Laos, Sri Lanka and Uruguay.
The ministry included these projects in a list of New Zealand’s climate finance initiatives submitted to the UN.
Since livestock burps the potent greenhouse gas methane, an activist said it’s “bizarre” to class these projects as climate-positive.
In 2010, developed countries pledged to provide US$100 billion in climate finance each year to help developing nations. Although the financial target has not been reached, New Zealand has increased its commitments from NZ$50 million …
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