"Our emissions are globally small, but high per capita"
The high level of agricultural production in New Zealand means we produce a lot of methane and nitrous oxide which have a greater warming effect compared with carbon dioxide. Based on the latest available inventory data for 2016, New Zealand’s gross emissions ranked 24th among the Annex I countries, but our emissions per person were the seventh highest at 16.9 tonnes CO2-e per capita.
snapshot-nzs-greenhouse-gas-inventory-1990-2017.pdf (1,023.88 kb)