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:
14/11/22
Meeting type:
In person hui
MfE/MPI staff:
MPI- Charlotte Denny, Shannon Bentley, Hannah McCoy
MfE- David Mead, Hamish Slack
Ind Facilitator- Troy Para
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:
14/11/22
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
There was discussion about the recent settlement. Concerns were raised around
the
thresholds set for farms to report after having just got land back and it not all being on one block, how will this work
emissions?
with a collective?
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 Wil organic farming fit under this and wil there be incentives for this type of
for
incentivising mitigation practices farming?
or technologies?
Concern was raised around paying money for technologies/mitigations and not
What
mitigation practices or
getting anything back (i.e. via sequestration credits or mitigations)
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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Question was raised around how permanent sequestration wil work. They asked if
What feedback did attendees have on
people have to come into an agreement and say for example, that vegetation won’t
the proposed approach to
carbon
be cut down. How wil this be monitored?
sequestration?
Question was asked whether horticulture wil get any of the credits or does it only
What
barriers did attendees raise to
apply to riparian plantings.
including new categories of
sequestration in the NZ ETS?
Question was asked around completing fencing and fresh planting- can you get the
money then? Or do you have to wait until it is mature?
Did attendees have any
concerns
about bringing
on-farm vegetation into Concerns were expressed for those people with low profit margins who can’t do
a farm-pricing system?
the maintenance, etc for planting- those who can’t afford to do this will struggle to
pay for fencing- how wil they be able to access the credits?
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
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
Did attendees prefer a
tradeable
methane quota? What benefits did they
cite?
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?
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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?
Concern was raised around the short timeframes to consider the proposal and
lodge a submission. They reiterated that more time was needed to prepare. It was
How did attendees think the
Crown
also noted that consultation and Māori engagement was noted as a high priority
should
protect relevant
iwi and Māori
but that it occurred very last minute (4 days before the closing of submissions).
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?
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Agricultural Emissions Pricing Consultation – The Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Primary Industries
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
They asked what involvement local councils wil have in regard to environment
Did attendees have
any other
plans, etc including all of the legislative reforms.
feedback on the proposals?
How wil the integration of systems (legislation) occur?
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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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