Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Scheme Agricultural Obligations) Amendment Bill
This bill removes farming from New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) — the system where businesses must pay for the greenhouse gases they produce. Under current law, meat and dairy processors were going to have to start paying for farming emissions from 2025, and individual farmers from 2027. This bill cancels both of those requirements. Farmers who had already registered with the scheme will be removed from it. They must keep any records they already collected for at least seven years.
What this affects
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The bill removes all requirements for farmers and meat or dairy processors to pay for or report agricultural greenhouse gas emissions under New Zealand's carbon pricing scheme.
This Bill amends the Climate Change Response Act 2002 (the CCRA) to remove agriculture activities from the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (the NZ ETS).
Repeal Part 5 of Schedule 3 [which lists agricultural activities requiring ETS participation].
On and from the commencement date, persons who were participants under section 54(1)(a) by virtue of an activity or activities listed in Part 5 of Schedule 3 will cease to be participants under this Act.
Progress through Parliament
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