As planet burns, National will allow farmers to pollute until 2030
National’s climate moo-turn: Agricultural emissions pricing delayed to 2030
National is kicking agricultural emissions pricing to next decade, saying the sector will stay out of the Emissions Trading Scheme and only face an emissions price by 2030.
Farmers will begin paying emissions prices in 2025 under the current Government’s proposals. The Government is still ironing out the scheme for how this will happen, but has not shifted from the 2025 date.
National’s scheme would measure emissions at the farm level from 2025, but farmers would only begin paying an emissions price in 2030.
Jesus wept.
Here is the data…
…and National’s response to that data is to leave the agricultural sector, their political mates, out of paying for their pollution until 2030!
This is not a serious climate change policy, this is pure capitulation to Corporate Farmers.
National, ACT and Federated Farmers have always been climate deniers, they refuse to believe the party is over and they still want a never ending gravy train of monopolies and never ending love from National.
What we need to be considering is an ongoing active direct subsidy to NZ Farmers to buy food for Kiwis and keep the cost permanently lowered.
We have food security problems in NZ and 0 subsidies to help ensure domestic food security. The only focus is feeding those 40million overseas mouths, not feeding our own.
National are betraying the country and dooming us so that their Farming mates are safe.
This is worse than climate denial, this is climate avoidance.
National and ACT are setting us on a pathways of conflict that will start wave after wave of civil disobedience as Kiwi turns on Kiwi in an endless cycle of recrimination.
Oh, and for those still claiming agriculture isn’t the problem, check the facts…
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To be fair to Luxon, he’s all out attack on ACT to get the farmers vote back. If he can secure the farmers vote, then Seymour has no choice to sit on the cross benches. Seymour did promise to do that if National didn’t implement ACT policies didn’t he?
Storm in a tea cup article.
National are completely full of it. Labour rather meekly try to do something (probably inadequate) and it’s “killing farming” . Even though they haven’t paid anything.Apparently waiting five years will make it all better. Like everything else National are try to kick it down the road
Then they say genetically modified seeds are the answer, but they will heavily regulate it. The party that says we are over regulated will regulate it? Hmm.
But hey we feed less than half of one percent of the world’s population. I am sure that number is probably bollocks too.
Meanwhile the current Labour government has been using taxpayer money to fund dairy conversions overseas:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/132261664/governments-climate-donations-set-up-dairy-farming-overseas
“ New Zealand pledged to spend $375 million reducing greenhouse emissions and protecting communities in vulnerable countries.
But according to official documents reviewed by Stuff, some of that cash promoted planet-heating dairy and meat farming.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade funded projects to establish dairy farming in Fiji and Myanmar. Between 2015 and 2020, it also funded work to intensify meat or milk production in Laos, Sri Lanka and Uruguay.”
This while enacting climate legislation in NZ to knowingly cut cow numbers and put 20% of our own sheep and beef farmers out of business.
OK let’s assume there is a ‘climate crisis’.
So, what’s your plan…?
I think it involves destroying national food production and the economy all at once.
Really KCCO? Ben Waimata has pointed out that farmers want to pay so your comment might be off the mark. How are the folks at groinswell?
Cry harder.
What have the left done other than import record amounts of dirty Indonesian coal?
Oh look, the same stupid comment on graphs…