Thousands of dairy farmers will soon be given an accurate picture of their farm's greenhouse gas emissions. In a New Zealand first, Fonterra will provide a unique emissions profile to each of its farmers from next spring. The profile will help farmers understand the sources of greenhouse gas emissions on their farms and what action can be taken to cut them.

Enviro-Mark Solutions has announced the winners of its 2019 Awards, which recognise organisations that have achieved outstanding reductions in carbon emissions in recent years using the carboNZeroCertTM and CEMARS® programmes, as well as exceptional environmental performance through the Enviro-Mark® programme. The winning organisations from the major award categories have each reduced their carbon footprint by at least 30% on their base year figures, with two organisations reducing their carbon footprint by more than 75% compared to base year.

Last week we asked New Zealand CEOs whether greed is still good. In the second part of our series on the ethics of NZ businesses, we put them on the spot over whether short term profits trump long term environmental impacts.