The agriculture sector proposed a different transitional scheme, which they would manage, to eventually bring agriculture into an emissions pricing system by 2025. Under the favoured scheme, farmers would be responsible for collecting this data, reporting it, and paying directly for emissions. In 2023, farmers will be allowed to voluntarily report emissions to the Government, ahead of mandatory reporting which will come in 2024. Farmers will then be asked to pay for their emissions, with a 95 percent discount, from 2025. ANDY JACKSON/STUFF Energy Minister Megan Woods said the Government will be "pragmatic" about its goal of achieving 100 per cent renewable electricity generation.

Source: Stuff July 16, 2019 01:01 UTC