New Zealand’s agriculture leaders have released a plan for the sector to have its own pricing system on gas emissions from 2025 in a bid to avoid joining the nation’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
The agriculture sector is the country’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions but is exempt from its ETS, drawing significant criticism.
The He Waka Eke Noa, a partnership between agriculture leaders and the government, proposed for farmers to calculate their own methane and nitrous oxide emissions individually, not based on national averages.
“The proposal, while not perfect, is significantly better than agriculture entering the ETS and gives farmers influence over their future,” an email sent to farmers on June 8 read….