| The Emissions Trading Scheme is up for review, but the government has controversially left agriculture out of the discussion document. Opposition parties argued the sector must be included because it was responsible for about half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.
Passed into law by the former Labour-led government, the Emissions Trading Scheme is the government's primary tool to try to reduce climate-damaging emissions. The original ETS had agriculture entering the scheme in 2013, but when National took power, it pushed that out to 2015, then legislated to keep it out of the scheme indefinitely...............................................Full Article: Source
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