Selwyn Times: August 01, 2018

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SELWYN RURAL LIFE
Feds support emission reduction but say
road map needed
Moves to significantly reduce emissions
and meet Paris Agreement commitments
are supported by Federated Farmers, but
this should not be at the expense of New
Zealanders’ economic and social wellbeing,
the organisation says.
“We need that clear
road map to a low net
emissions economy
and a long-term plan
of action that endures
political cycles. But
New Zealand should
not lock itself into an
inflexible approach
that disadvantages
us more than other
nations,” Feds climate
Andrew Hoggard change spokesperson
Andrew Hoggard said.
“In the decades to 2050 we’ll also be
grappling with the major cost implications
of an ageing population. We must have
regard for the impact various ‘net zero’
options would have on emissions prices and
on GDP, jobs and incomes.”
In its submission on the Zero Carbon Bill,
Federated Famers said the best option of the
three put forward in the Our Climate Your
Say discussion paper was the “two baskets”
approach that focused on reductions in longlived
greenhouse gas emissions (carbon
dioxide and nitrous oxide) while stabilising
short-lived emissions (methane).
“New Zealand’s primary industries earned
64 per cent of our total merchandise export
income in 2017/18, not to mention the
several billion dollars of food produced for
domestic consumption,” Mr Hoggard said.
“We have an unsubsidised but highly
efficient agricultural sector, which is
markedly exposed to competition from
moderately to highly subsidised producers
in other nations.
“Successive governments have worked
hard to remove barriers to trade. It would be
counterproductive for future governments
to impose costs on our producers that would
undermine those trade gains.
“The wrong policies could reduce our
emissions-efficient food production, a gap
that will be filled by much less emissionsefficient
producers overseas. We lose
economically, and so does the planet in terms
of global warming and climate change.”
The Federation’s submission said
regardless of which 2050 target is adopted,
agricultural biological emissions should
not come under the ETS until cost-effective
mitigations are available to farmers and
our international competitors make similar
moves.
It also noted the great potential for forest
and other woody vegetation to sequest
carbon, including establishment of new
commercial forests, farm woodlots, shelter
belts, slope stability, erosion control planting
and riparian planting.
“But there’s a warning with this,” Mr
Hoggard said.
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land use change from sheep and
beef farming to forestry, when it’s farming
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