21 Dec 2022
"This is about getting it right" - Dairy NZ chair on emissions reduction system
The government is proposing a farm-level emissions reduction system as an alternative to the Emissions Trading Scheme backstop, saying it will give farmers price certainty. It committed to a five-year price pathway for levy rates for farmers from 2025.. The response came after more than 23,000 submissions were received on the plan to price agricultural carbon emissions. DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel pool spoke with Susie Ferguson.