New Zealand has decided to exclude the agriculture sector, responsible for about half of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, from a national carbon pricing system. This decision follows the scrapping of plans to tax livestock burps and farts, a controversial policy that aimed to address methane emissions from cows and sheep.
New Zealand Reverses Left-Wing Plan to Tax Cow Burps, Farts New Zealand is scrapping a scheme to price gas emissions from livestock — squelching a so-called burp and fart tax initiated under the previous left-wing government led by now departed authoritarian Prime Minister… https://t.co/dyMwELnD9z
Bill Gates: "My climate group Breakthrough energy just announced an investment in an Australian group called Ruminate that helps cows not be so much a source of methane emissions...6% of global emissions are cows who burp and fart methane to an extreme degree. You can either fix… https://t.co/3KJX0uI5hI
New Zealand Cancels the Climate Change Cow Fart Tax https://t.co/FL8pj2K8RN
Say goodbye to the 'burp tax': Govt lets farmers off the hook for emissions - for now The 'burp tax' is dead, and farmers are off the hook for emissions, for now. In a move that relieved farmers and infuriated climate campaigners, the Government has moved to keep agriculture… https://t.co/JpTKCpA4i2
With cow ‘burp tax’ causing a stink, New Zealand scraps the controversial policy https://t.co/boqJsOAqEs
New Zealand Reverses Left-Wing Plan to Tax Cow Burps, Farts https://t.co/t5k2j6V0Jj
New Zealand confirmed the agriculture sector, which accounts for about half the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, will be excluded from a national carbon pricing system. https://t.co/AcrZ5T0Aj3
NEW: New Zealand scraps plan to tax livestock burps, farts https://t.co/eae1OK2vJD
New Zealand scraps burp and fart tax. The New Zealand economy is driven by agriculture with around 10 million cattle and 25 million sheep roaming the nation's pastures. Just under half of New Zealand's emissions come from agriculture https://t.co/vRgZFjMBF8 https://t.co/ImUHclpndC
And more on New Zealand: The new center-right government said the country's agriculture sector, which accounts for nearly 1/2 of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, will be excluded from a national carbon pricing system expected in 2025. https://t.co/CsW7BghfHX https://t.co/7e6gNTzIdN
#NewZealand ends plans to price agricultural emissions https://t.co/A5k5SpUXNK
New Zealand confirmed the agriculture sector, which accounts for about half the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, will be excluded from a national carbon pricing system https://t.co/XMcHY9QIAP
New Zealand ends plans to price agricultural emissions https://t.co/d88NVWXKqy https://t.co/ZuMrGtj0WE
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