The agency’s pathway to zero carbon doesn’t rely on offsets such as planting trees to suck up and store carbon. Supplied Coal mining company Bathurst Resources operates a number of coal mines around the country – and plans to expand. From 2021, countries around the world must stop building new coal plants, the report noted. But the bulk of greenhouse emissions will be saved by using green fuels in the place of coal, oil and gas. Aotearoa is curbing offshore oil and gas extraction, though onshore gas and coal are unrestricted.

Source: Stuff May 19, 2021 05:47 UTC