Swimmable rivers or more hooves on pastures—is there a way of improving water quality without paralysing the primary sector? Or has agriculture reached an environmental tipping point?

Last year a Waikato law student sued the government over its climate change policy, claiming that the low emissions reduction pledge it made as part of the Paris climate negotiations was “unreasonable and irrational”.

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