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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Consultation Event Feedback Template
Instructions:
• One template is to be fil ed in per consultation event and provided to Allen + Clarke following each consultation event for
inclusion in the overall analysis. In the first instance, the primary audience is Al en + Clarke, who wil focus thematic feedback,
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.
• Please file here, or email to 9(2)(g)(ii)
if you cannot access the link.
Date:
10 November 2022
Meeting type:
Online
MfE/MPI staff:
Janine Smith (MfE), Jessica Bensemann (MfE), Hamish Slack (MfE), Mele Tabukovu (MPI), Shannon
Bentley (MPI), Nigel Searles (MPI), Hannah Steans (MfE), Hannah McCoy (MPI)
Number of attendees:
28
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Al en + Clarke
Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Date:
10 November 2022
Demographic of attendees (if ETS participants
possible, e.g. farmer, NGO,
Māori, general public):
Prompt
Stakeholder feedback
Emissions reporting
Who did attendees think should be
responsible for
reporting and paying
• Clarity needed on the reporting requirements for farmers
for
emissions?
• 550 stock units- are they revised stock units or the individual number of
What feedback did attendees have on
animals?
the
thresholds set for farms to report
• Registration for the ETS credits, the price has gone up 300%. Why has this
emissions?
gone up when you’re encouraging people to use the ETS? Are you guys
What did attendees believe would need
administrating these costs?
to be in place to
include collectives in
•
the pricing scheme?
Did attendees believe farms will have
the
necessary data for reporting by
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
approach to
reporting emissions?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Pricing, revenue and incentive payments
What
concerns did attendees have
around the proposed approach to
• Is the revenue going to attract GST? Is it also seen as a cost that farmers
setting levy prices?
could credit against farm income, i.e. reduce income tax? – would be good
to get a definite answer, as this is another concern and cost in the whole
Did attendees offer any
improvements
thing. Enough costs going out without having to have more disruptions?
to the proposed approach to
setting
levy prices?
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What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed
revenue recycling
strategy?
What did attendees think about an
advisory board for revenue
recycling?
What
transitional support did
attendees say was needed?
What approaches did attendees support
for
incentivising mitigation practices
or technologies?
What
mitigation practices or
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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• Will bracken be considered for sequestration? Given it’s shown a
sequestration rate through preliminary studies.
• If a farmer received a levy for riparian planting and indigenous vegetation,
What feedback did attendees have on
can they stil enter these areas into the ETS if eligible or does getting the
the proposed approach to
carbon
levy preclude them from entering the ETS?
sequestration?
• Can you carry sequestration credits on to the following year, as the targets
What
barriers did attendees raise to
are trying to be reached. So e.g. have too much one year, can this be
including new categories of
passed on to a deficit for the next year coming up?
sequestration in the NZ ETS?
• Wilding pines- had a huge area that has been cleared, is there any relief on this?
• Has the Govt considered the administrative burden added to the ETS if
Did attendees have any
concerns
thousands of farmers have to register very small areas in order to get offset
about bringing
on-farm vegetation into
recognition for sequestration that doesn't fall into the 2 categories
a farm-pricing system?
proposed?
•
Did attendees prefer
pricing nitrogen
at the farm level or at the processer
level? Why?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
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Future enhancements
Did attendees prefer a
tradeable
methane quota? What benefits did they
• Why wasn’t the tradeable methane quota chosen as government’s preferred
cite?
option
What concerns did attendees have
about
tradeable methane quotas?
What concerns did attendees share
about an
interim processer-level
levy
•
?
Wil the processor level levy include nitrogen, carbon and methane from
commencement?
What
alternatives to an interim
processer-level levy did attendees
share?
Question:
• Can you share a bit more about why the ETS was deemed inappropriate for
New/thorny questions asked by
agriculture?
attendees
• Why was the phase down rate for setting the long-lived gases price dif erent
[Duplicate this row as needed]
to the phase out rates in the NZ ETS for example industrial allocation?
•
Impacts and support
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How did attendees believe the system
would
impact them?
What
support did attendees believe wil
be needed?
What impact did attendees think the
pricing scheme wil have on their
communities?
How can
rural communities be
supported?
Did attendees share specific
impacts
for Māori?
How did attendees think the
Crown
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
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What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed
governance structure?
What did attendees think should be
included in the post-implementation
review in 2030?
What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed approach to
monitoring
and verification?
Did attendees support a
government-
run or third-party verification system?
Why?
Who did attendees believe should
fund
the
administration of the scheme?
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
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•
Did attendees have
any other
How certain are we that this system will be able to meet agriculture's component of the
feedback on the proposals?
nationally determined contribution? Will the NZ ETS money need to be used to
purchase offsets if agricultural emissions do not decrease enough?
• Is NZ the only country to implement an agricultural tax? If so, why aren’t
other countries bringing this in?
• That is a massive amount of carbon leakage! Shouldn't NZ be developing
policies to reduce global emissions rather than try to reduce to domestic
emissions which only serve to increase global emissions and exacerbate
global warming/climate change impacts?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
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