NZ Meat Industry: Silver Fern, Alliance Look At Sourcing lamb From Uruguay
November 27th, 2009
John Key has made clear farmers are expected to take their additional burden for agricultural emissions. Comparisons with Aust need to be made carefully. Aust farm emissions will still be counted in the country’s liabilities, so if they’re not in an ETS, they will be targeted by emissions-reducing domestic regulations instead. What those regulations look like, nobody yet knows.
In pushing back the entry date of agriculture to the scheme to 2015, the NZ Govt is trying to put mechanisms in place to minimise the speed bumps. Environment Minister Nick Smith acknowledges there are “real practical challenges” in applying the ETS to agriculture. Smith has announced the establishment next year of a technical advisory implementation group to navigate the issues raised by trying to measure GHG contributions across different geographies, climate and animal types.
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The Key Govt’s version of the impost on farmers will be less onerous than Labour’s. Smith estimates the annual cost to farmers will be $3,000 by 2030, rather than the $30,000 under the former Govt’s scheme. Smith told Federated Farmers’ National Council meeting “the ANZACs are not bludgers. Doing our fair share is in the NZ psyche.” Feds president Don Nicolson continues to insist the ETS should not include agriculture.
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