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:
31/10/2022
Meeting type:
Workshop
MfE/MPI staff:
Martin Workman, Hamish Slack (MfE), Mele Tabukovu (MPI)
Number of attendees:
Approx. 17 ppl
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Date:
31/10/2022
Demographic of attendees (if Merino Wool Growers and leadership
possible, e.g. farmer, NGO,
Māori, general public):
Prompt
Stakeholder feedback
Emissions reporting
• Is the pricing methodology reliable?
Who did attendees think should be
• How does pricing system work for high country pastoral leases?
responsible for
reporting and paying
• Are emissions from a merino sheep the same as other sheep?
for
emissions?
• What calculators wil government recognise.
What feedback did attendees have on
Note:
the
thresholds set for farms to report
emissions?
• NZ Merino Wool is currently developing a platform to map their merino
growers’ farms emissions. The ‘Made for Good RX’ uses on-farm, LUCAS,
What did attendees believe would need
and farms online data to understand the emissions profile and sequestration
to be in place to
include collectives in
opportunities for merino farmers.
the pricing scheme?
• NZMW is interested in aligning platform with government legislation i.e.
calculation methodology, sequestration included etc.
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Did attendees believe farms will have
the
necessary data for reporting by
2025?
What feedback did attendees have on
registration requirements?
Did attendees raise any concerns
about
reporting and payment timing?
• Interested in understanding the methodology for calculating emissions so it
Did attendees believe there are any
can align with their platform.
opportunities to improve the proposed
• Interested in how variations in farms and merino wool sector wil be
approach to
reporting emissions?
considered in a pricing system.
Question:
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Answer:
[Duplicate this row as needed]
Pricing, revenue and incentive payments
•
What
concerns did attendees have
What is the bigger picture? Is a pricing system just about meeting international
around the proposed approach to
targets? Or is it about reducing emissions?
setting levy prices?
• How are we going to ensure that perverse outcomes are reduced i.e.
intensifying farms before 2025
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Did attendees offer any
improvements
to the proposed approach to
setting
levy prices?
What feedback did attendees have on
the proposed
revenue recycling
strategy?
n/a
What did attendees think about an
advisory board for revenue
recycling?
Noted:
What
transitional support did
• the lack of mitigation options for merino wool growers.
attendees say was needed?
• There was a strong sense that they see themselves as environmentally
What approaches did attendees support
responsible farmers, and so were frustrated that dairy in particular end up being
for
incentivising mitigation practices
less impacted by the levy because of the other environmental impacts of
or technologies?
intensive farming
What
mitigation practices or
• They noted that they are a high value producer - they have "added value to
technologies did attendees think
volume". So their wondering was, if their only option available to reduce their
should be
supported by an incentive
emissions was de-stocking, if that would be a win for "NZ Inc".
payment?
• GE tech is being taken up by other countries, however there are leg barriers
here.
New/thorny questions asked by
Question:
attendees
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[Duplicate this row as needed]
Answer:
Pricing carbon sequestration and nitrogen fertiliser
• What happens if you don’t and can’t have regenerating native vegetation?
• Why aren’t broader co-benefits i.e. biodiversity being rewarded?
What feedback did attendees have on
Noted:
the proposed approach to
carbon
sequestration?
• There needs to be more thought into what ‘additionality’ means in their
context (for sequestration). Noted that in some cases they have
What
barriers did attendees raise to
arrangements with DOC etc for regeneration that does not involve fencing
including new categories of
(and indeed, that fencing can be actively harmful)
sequestration in the NZ ETS?
• unique circumstances of merino wool growers – cannot plant trees in some
areas due to legislation or biophysical conditions of their land
Did attendees have any
concerns
•
about bringing
on-farm vegetation into
planting of pines is not penalised for loss of biodiversity
a farm-pricing system?
• value of holistic benefits not taking to account
• however, recognised that the pricing system could only recognise a limited
form of sequestration, and wil explore how other mechanisms could
holistically recognise other benefits
Did attendees prefer
pricing nitrogen
at the farm level or at the processer
N/A
level? Why?
New/thorny questions asked by
attendees
Question:
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[Duplicate this row as needed]
Answer:
Other/General
Did attendees have
any other
feedback on the proposals?
Theme
- Most of the discussion was focused on how NZMW works with their growers
New/thorny questions asked by
to act on climate change in order to position their products. NZMW
attendees
recognize that an agricultural emissions pricing system wil not recognize al
[Duplicate this row as needed]
the co-benefits / broader benefits from their farm practices therefore they
are looking at other ways of recognizing actions.
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