New legislation will be introduced to Parliament to remove the agriculture sector from a new emissions pricing plan.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand’s centre-right government said on June 11 it is scrapping a scheme to price greenhouse gas emissions from livestock – squelching a so-called burp tax.
“It doesn’t make sense to send jobs and production overseas, while less carbon-efficient countries produce the food the world needs.” But the plan to tax livestock emissions, announced by then prime minister Jacinda Ardern in 2022, sparked nationwide protests by farmers fearing it would hurt profits. But environmental groups rounded on the government, which also announced plans at the weekend to reverse a five-year ban on new oil and gas exploration.
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