While work is underway to lower methane emissions at the farm gate, the government is also investing in a new project to measure emissions from the final frontier.
The New Zealand Space Agency is partnering with United States based NGO the Environmental Defense Fund, to launch a satellite into space to measure methane emissions in its first official space mission.
The government is stumping up $26 million towards the project.
Political reporter Charlie Dreaver was at the announcement at the Carter Observatory in Wellington and filed this report.
