Key 'dishonest' on dairy price - Goff
Labour is continuing to insist that putting agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2013 won't raise the price of dairy products, and says Prime Minister John Key is being misleading by saying it will.
Labour is continuing to insist that putting agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2013 won't raise the price of dairy products, and says Prime Minister John Key is being misleading by saying it will.
NZ farmers are unlikely to be brought into the emissions trading scheme in 2015 unless scientific advances are made in reducing animal emissions and our trading partners make giant strides in pricing carbon.
As the Emissions Trading Scheme begins, studies find a wealth of carbon locked up in the soil.
The Australian govt is shelving plans to start its ETS for at least three years, but the NZ Government says it has no plans to delay the scheme here.
New Zealand's only tea plantation is now certified organic in time to begin exporting its harvest.
Nick Smith says he makes no apologies for using taxpayers' money to send two Iwi Leadership Group members to the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen.
John Key warns farmers they reject a response to climate change at their peril - endangering their reputations, future incomes and the economy.
John Key urged farmers to be less agitated about the ETS and tackling climate change in an address to Federated Farmers today.
New Zealand's largest exporter, Fonterra, says it will receive no protection under planned changes to the emissions trading scheme.