I also made a submission and I’m aware of others pushing a biochar agenda. A submission was made on behalf or BNNZ… I’ll try to get this liked here as well.
Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission on this legislation.
My submission is in three parts:
- a comment on the climate change strategy New Zealand should pursue
- the case for negative emissions technologies (NETs)
- specific amendments suggested to the draft legislation
Overall New Zealand climate change strategy
New Zealand has among the world’s highest per capita endowments of renewable energy. This includes geothermal and hydro where we are exploiting most of our potential large-scale capacity. We could develop much more small-scale hydro and geothermal heat pump capacity. We can develop much more wind and solar power. Intermittency issues can be solved with clever use of existing technology.
We can improve home and building insulation and energy efficiency. Bioenergy and electrical energy can replace most fossil fuels in industrial processes. The benefits are economic as well as environmental. For example mass adoption of electric vehicles would save New Zealand…
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