No 1 dairy exporter gets five years for climate mitigation

New Zealand’s decision to give its farm and food industry five years to to measure and price its greenhouse gas emissions at the farm level puts it up to competing national agricultural industries, including Ireland’s.

Not surprisingly, DairyNZ, representing their biggest farm sector, has welcomed their Government announcement, which keeps agri-food out of their Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). In New Zealand, only agriculture is outside the ETS, which puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions, thus forcing sectors to reduce emissions, or purchase credits at the carbon price.