New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 24 per cent in the 25 years between 1990 and 2015, the first report of a new system of environmental-economic accounts shows.
The new accounts showed the impact of what humans were doing to the natural environment and what was being done to mitigate that, as well as the importance of natural resources to the economy, Statistics New Zealand said.
From 1990 to 2015, total economy real GDP (gross domestic product) increased at a rate of 3.1 per cent a year while carbon dioxide equivalent emissions increased 0.9 per cent a year, driving a decline in greenhouse gas intensity, the report said.
Emissions growth was 0.5 per cent a year for primary industries, 1.2 per cent for goods-producing industries, and 2.2 per cent a year for service industries.
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