Al en + Clarke
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:
14 November 2022
Meeting type:
Hybrid
MfE/MPI staff:
Charlotte Denny (MfE), Hannah McCoy (MPI), David Mead (MfE), Hamish Slack (MfE), Shannon Bentley
(MPI)
Number of attendees:
3
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Al en + Clarke
Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Date:
14 November 2022
Demographic of attendees (if Māori
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
emissions?
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
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
setting levy prices?
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?
• Concern with paying all of this money, and potentially not getting anything
back
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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What feedback did attendees have on
• When you say permanent, do people have to come into agreement and say
it won’t be cut down?
the proposed approach to
carbon
• How will you monitor the sequestration contracts?
sequestration?
• Wil horticulture get any of the credits/ be able to join sequestration
What
barriers did attendees raise to
contracts?
including new categories of
• Can you get the money when you do fencing and plantings- or do you have
sequestration in the NZ ETS?
to wait for the plants to mature?
• Concerns with people with a lower profit margin- how wil they pay for the
Did attendees have any
concerns
maintenance and fencing needed to enter a sequestration contract?
about bringing
on-farm vegetation into
• Can farmers get credits for organic farming?
a farm-pricing system?
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]
Future enhancements
Did attendees prefer a
tradeable
methane quota? What benefits did they
cite?
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
What concerns did attendees have
about
tradeable methane quotas?
What concerns did attendees share
about an
interim processer-level
levy?
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?
What
support did attendees believe wil
be needed?
What impact did attendees think the
pricing scheme wil have on their
communities?
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How can
rural communities be
supported?
• Consultation and Maori engagement a high priority- but yet has happened
very last minute- i.e. this meeting was four days before the closing of
submissions
Did attendees share specific
impacts
• More time is needed to prepare
for Māori?
• There was a really short time frame for consultation
How did attendees think the
Crown
• One of the attendees discussed how their land is a very recent settlement
should
protect relevant
iwi and Māori
and just back from DOC- it isn’t all on one block. How will this system
impact them?
interests?
• Concerns with the way information flows- and whether what is supposed to
happen wil trickle down.
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Implementation, verification, compliance and enforcement
• What involvement with local councils have, in regards to environment
What feedback did attendees have on
plans etc? including all the reforms
the proposed
governance structure?
• Integration of systems
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
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
Did attendees have
any other
feedback on the proposals?
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
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