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<i>Brian Fallow</i>: ETS will cost our children
Weakening the incentive to reduce emissions means they will peak higher and later.
Weakening the incentive to reduce emissions means they will peak higher and later.
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 will be offered $4781 by Lucy Lawless and Jim Salinger in an attempt to get him to a climate change conference in Denmark.
MPs are pointing to a $50bn increase in the estimated cost of the Govt's proposed ETS changes as evidence of the process being rushed.
A report out today says the government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could cost twice as much as originally estimated.
A parliamentary committee's report on ETS was unable to find common ground among the political parties.
Taxpayers will be stuck with 84 per cent of NZ's Kyoto Protocol bill, while farmers and industrial emitters get hefty subsidies, a study says.
New Zealand's largest exporter, Fonterra, says it will receive no protection under planned changes to the emissions trading scheme.