Response ID ANON-SYE4-4PV1-G
Submitted to Pricing agricultural emissions
Submitted on 2022-11-18 23:29:01
Submitter details
1 Submitter name
Individual or organisation name:
He Tātai Rangahua - Food and Fibre Youth Network
2 Are you submitting as an individual or on behalf of an organisation?
Organisation
3 What is your contact email address?
Email:
[email address]
4 Which region are you in?
Select your region:
Not applicable – national organisation
5 Please choose any you are associated with:
Farmer/grower, Rural professional or farm advisor, Other
Other: please specify here:
Food and Fibre Youth
Section 3: The Government’s proposed policy designs
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1 Do you think modifications are required to the proposed farm-level levy system to ensure it delivers sufficient reductions in gross emissions
from the agriculture sector?
Not Answered
Please explain your answer here:
2 Are tradeable methane quotas an option the Government should consider further in the future?
Not Answered
Why? Please explain your answer here:
3 Which option do you prefer for pricing agricultural emissions by 2025?
Not Answered
Why? Please explain your answer here:
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4 Do you support the proposed approach for reporting of emissions?
Not Answered
Why? Please explain your answer here:
What improvements should be considered? :
5 Do you support the proposed approach to setting levy prices?
No
Why? Please explain your answer here:
The Food and Fibre Youth Network recommends that a unique price is set for both methane and nitrous oxide taking into consideration a broader range
of factors than just progress toward the emissions reduction targets.
What improvements should be considered? :
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6 Do you support the proposed approach to revenue recycling?
Not Answered
Why? Please explain your answer here:
What improvements should be considered? :
7 Do you support the proposed approach for incentive payments to encourage additional emissions reductions?
Not Answered
Why? Please explain your answer here:
What improvements should be considered? :
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8 Do you support the proposed approach for recognising carbon sequestration from riparian plantings and management of indigenous
vegetation, both in the short and long term?
No, none of the above
Why? Please explain your answer here:
We believe that more sequestration categories need to be recognised.
What improvements should be considered? :
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9 Do you support the introduction of an interim processor-level levy in 2025 if the farm-level system is not ready?
No
Please explain your answer here. If you selected no, what alternative would you propose to ensure agricultural emissions pricing starts in 2025?:
We feel that spending the time and money setting up a farm-level system correctly from the start would provide a better outcome than building a
processor-level system first and then building a farm-level one a few years later. This will create unnecessary costs and confusion for participants. We
think it makes more sense to start with a simple farm-level system and then add further detail in the future than transition between totally separate
systems.
Section 4: Impacts
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10 Do you think the proposed system for pricing agricultural emissions is equitable, both within the agriculture sector and across other
sectors, and across Aotearoa New Zealand generally?
Why? Please explain your answer here:
What changes to the system would be required to make it equitable?:
11 In principle, do you think the agricultural sector should pay for any shortfall in its emissions reductions?
Not Answered
Please explain your answer here. If you selected yes, do you think using levy revenue would be an appropriate mechanism for this?:
12 What impacts or implications do you foresee as a result of each of the Government’s proposals in the short and the long term?
Write your answer here :
13 What steps should the Crown be taking to protect relevant iwi and Māori interests, in line with Te Tiriti o Waitangi?
Write your answer here:
How should the Crown support Māori landowners, farmers and growers in a pricing system?:
Provide general feedback
15 Do you have any other priority issues that you would like to share on the Government’s proposals for addressing agricultural emissions?
Add your comments, ideas, and feedback here.:
Upload supporting documentation
Upload documentation:
FFYN Agriculture Emissions Pricing Submission.pdf was uploaded
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Attachment refused under section 18(d) of the Act as it is already publicly available at: https://www.ffyouthnetwork.co.nz/hubfs/White%20Papers/FFYN%20Emissions%20Pricing%
20Submission_October%202022.pdf
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