The letter was launched on the first day of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Sustainable Livestock Conference in Rome. It comes just as the New Zealand Government is set to make a decision on whether to align its methane target with ‘no additional warming’, which could breach international obligations under the Paris Agreement. Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Larsson says, “No additional warming is a political trick dressed up as science. It pretends current methane emissions are fine – when in reality, they’re fuelling the climate crisis.”“Cutting methane emissions now is our only chance to reduce global temperature rise in our lifetime. “Farming communities are already experiencing the impacts of the climate crisis – from the Nelson floods, to the drought last summer.