The Government has committed to steadily decreasing the country's greenhouse gas emissions from 2021, after the emissions trading reform bill passed its third reading in Parliament. But the chair of the Climate Change Commission is warning the hard work – making a plan to meet our carbon caps – still lies ahead. David walker/Stuff Under the just-passed emissions trading reform bill, agricultural greenhouse gases will be priced by 2025 at the latest. But Labour MP Dr Duncan Webb​ argued failing to mitigate climate change also has significant consequences. The annual emissions caps in the bill will be reviewed by the Climate Change Commission and may be changed from 2021 onwards.

Source: Stuff June 16, 2020 08:37 UTC