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:
15th November 2022
Meeting type:
Online Zespri Hui
MfE/MPI staff:
MPI: Darran Austin
MfE: David Mead, Michael Edmonson, Cephas Samwini
Facilitator: Dinah Vincent
Number of attendees:
6
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Date:
15th November 2022
9(2)(a)
.
Demographic of attendees (if Zespri policy analysts
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?
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
the proposed approach to
carbon
sequestration? What
barriers did attendees raise to
including new categories of
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
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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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
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
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?
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
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?
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Copy questions from the runsheet.
How is sengagement with Maori / Iwi being done?
Definitions of an entity as it is ambiguous in the kiwifruit sector ie. Land /orchard owners and management company etc.
Wil the same business owner be responsible for reporting under farm plans for allingment?
Who reports
How wil compliance and enfromcement for fertiliser reporting be done
When a management company manages multiple farms can they be allowed to report collectively or do they have to report each
farm separately.
Al ignement with FWFP: If the orchard owner is responsible for FWFP and another responsible for the farm emissions it will not be
good.
Management organisation / orchard oner not lessor/lessee arrangement
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Michael to return with a clearer answer.
RE: farm area are referring to total farm area including unproductive lands.
RE: Fertliser what was meant be organic fertiliser. Does it include compost used by faremrs and manure as well.
Need to clarify that the 40 tons of fertiliser covers both organic and inorganic fertliser.
Collectives a d how Maori can organise, Firther explanations required. To recognise complexity of ownership structure on Maori
land.
How is it going to be if a management company had another farm emnterprise eg Dairy and kiwi fruit orchard
Need a forum for addressing N2O emissions (as more focus id placed on methane) stronger and implications for freshwater. They
are interested in contributing to the disciussion
Integrated farm planning reporting is GHGs reporting included
Opportunity in revenue recycling to direct funding to N2O mitigations research.
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
9(2)(a) doing some research on sequestrations however, the results are likely to come afgter the consusltation. Is there a way to
feed the results in to the consultation? Can such results be incorporated somehow?
Perennial cropland not included in sequestration.
Is land use change accounted for in the system?
Clarification on organic fertiliser
Multiple policies coming to growers adding to complexity and stress.
Job losses spatial distrbutions of job losses and the oopotunities for the hor sectir to pick up. Is there any analysis or projections of
where the job losses are gong to be, so that the hort sector could position themselves to provide job options.
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