The Consortium has reported to the Crown on an annual basis since 2003.  The purpose of these reports has been to update the progress throughout the science programme and also to note any other research activity in the New Zealand agricultural sector that is focused on the mitigation or abatement of Methane or Nitrous Oxide.  

 The PGgRC has produced leading world research on the production of methane and nitrous oxide from grazing livestock, and is internationally acknowledged for managing the most comprehensive science programme of its type in the world.  The Annual Report 2008 was provided to the Minister of Agriculture and updates progress across the consortium's science programme to June 2008.The full document is available here.

This publication gives an overview of the research activity undertaken by the PGgRc to mitigate non-CO2 agriculture greenhouse gases (GHG) over the period from 2002 -  2007.  It also indicates at a strategic level the future science directions for the consortium.The opening section gives background to the consortium and the wider climate change issues that are being addressed by its activity. The remaining sections are organised into research discipline areas profiling the broad approach that has been taken to gain understanding of the complex biology that produces methane and nitrous oxide from our pastoral grazing systems.

 Each section commences with an introduction that identifies the research covered and the following pages detail specific projects of work, completed over the last 5 years.Corresponding authors are referenced on each project page, should the reader require more information.

Chapter 1; Introduction	Chapter 5; Animal Variation
Chapter 2; Rumen Ecology	Chapter 6; Mitigation & Abatement of Nitrous Oxide
Chapter 3; Methanogen Genomics	Chapter 7; Proof of Function
Chapter 4; Forage & Plant Constituents

Annual Report 2006: This is the third report to the Crown on the investment by the pastoral sector into the mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gases to June 2006, being the fourth year of the five year initial consortium period and tracks four years of progress. Since the submission of the first report the Kyoto protocol has come into force and is now binding. The recent updating of the expected position for New Zealand at the end of the first commitment period in 2012 identifies the significant challenge the sector faces in assisting New Zealand to meets it commitments under this treaty.

Annual Report 2005; This second report to the Crown on the investment by the pastoral sector into the mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gases covers the year from July 2004 to June 2005, being the third year of the five year initial consortium period.

Annual Report 2004: This report to the Crown on the Investment by the agricultural sector into the mitigation of greenhouse gases covers the requirements as outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) dated January 2004. The programme of activity that is reported here is driven by the pastoral greenhouse gas research strategy developed and appended to the MOU between the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium (PGGRC) parties and The Crown.