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Consultation Event Feedback Template
Instructions:
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but these wil also serve as our primary record/notes for each session.
• Use the prompts provided as suggestions to capture as much information as possible. However, you do not have to answer
every prompt, and can vary from the specific question if this wil better capture the themes and information provided in the
session.
• Capture as many Q&As as possible in the designated row, and duplicate the row for each new question. If you know that the
question has already come up and been answered similarly, or exists in our FAQs, you can make a call on either not capturing
it or referencing the relevant FAQ.
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Date:
Thursday 13 October
Meeting type:
Deer Farmers Association
MfE/MPI staff:
Martin Workman (MfE) and Fleur Francois (MPI)
Number of attendees:
~50
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Date:
Thursday 13 October
Demographic of attendees (if Farmers
possible, e.g. farmer, NGO,
Māori, general public):
Prompt
Stakeholder feedback
Emissions reporting
Who did attendees think should be
responsible for
reporting and paying
for
emissions?
What feedback did attendees have on
the
thresholds set for farms to report One question about lease holders and concern about whether they can offset the
emissions?
levy payment with sequestration as they’re not the landowner
What did attendees believe would need
to be in place to
include collectives in
the pricing scheme?
Did attendees believe farms will have
the
necessary data for reporting by
Questions about the type of data required for reporting
2025?
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What feedback did attendees have on
registration requirements?
Did attendees raise any concerns
about
reporting and payment timing?
Did attendees believe there are any
opportunities to improve the proposed Some farmers concerned about whether the reporting wil pick up their efficiency
approach to
reporting emissions?
improvements such as livestock finishing at a younger age
Question: Lots of questions about early adopters and how they wil be recognized
New/thorny questions asked by
in the pricing system
attendees
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Answer:
Pricing, revenue and incentive payments
What
concerns did attendees have
around the proposed approach to
setting levy prices?
N/A
Did attendees offer any
improvements
to the proposed approach to
setting
levy prices?
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What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed
revenue recycling
strategy?
N/A
What did attendees think about an
advisory board for revenue
recycling?
What
transitional support did
attendees say was needed?
What approaches did attendees support Significant interest in transitional support and questions about what government
for
incentivising mitigation practices means by “transition”
or technologies?
Significant concern from deer farmers about lack of mitigations and lack of R&D
What
mitigation practices or
focused on mitigations for deer emissions
technologies did attendees think
should be
supported by an incentive
payment?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Pricing carbon sequestration and nitrogen fertiliser
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What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed approach to
carbon
sequestration? What
barriers did attendees raise to
including new categories of
Concerns about lack sequestration options on some deer farms
sequestration in the NZ ETS?
Did attendees have any
concerns
about bringing
on-farm vegetation into
a farm-pricing system?
Did attendees prefer
pricing nitrogen
at the farm level or at the processer
N/A
level? Why?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Future enhancements
Did attendees prefer a
tradeable
methane quota? What benefits did they N/A
cite?
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What concerns did attendees have
about
tradeable methane quotas?
What concerns did attendees share
about an
interim processer-level
levy?
N/A
What
alternatives to an interim
processer-level levy did attendees
share?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Impacts and support
How did attendees believe the system
would
impact them?
Very significant economic impacts and impacts on rural communities; really
worried about carbon forestry
What
support did attendees believe wil
be needed?
Want transitional support but no specifics given
What impact did attendees think the
Significant negative impacts on rural communities based on comments above
pricing scheme wil have on their
communities?
Want support for rural communities but no specifics given
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How can
rural communities be
supported?
Did attendees share specific
impacts
for Māori?
How did attendees think the
Crown
N/A
should
protect relevant
iwi and Māori
interests?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Implementation, verification, compliance and enforcement
What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed
governance structure?
What did attendees think should be
N/A
included in the post-implementation
review in 2030?
What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed approach to
monitoring
N/A
and verification?
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Did attendees support a
government-
run or third-party verification system?
Why?
Who did attendees believe should
fund
the
administration of the scheme?
N/A
Did attendees have feedback on the
proposed approach to
cost-recovery?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Other/General
Did attendees have
any other
feedback on the proposals?
Question: How to reduce emissions without reducing food production and any
New/thorny questions asked by
examples where this has been achieved?
attendees
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Answer:
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