Prime Minister John Key has defended New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) amid criticism it is soft compared with a new Australian scheme.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday announced a carbon tax which would force the 500 worst Australian polluters [ More ] [ Read More ]
Farmers with tree blocks on their farms should register them in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), whatever their plans for the trees, says a forestry consultant.
Doing nothing about the ETS was the option chosen by the ill- informed, forestry consultant [ More ] [ Read More ]
New Zealand can't commit to specific emission cuts until rules around forestry are worked out, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said at United Nations global climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.
New Zealand was committed to playing a constructive role to secure [ More ] [ Read More ]
The simple description of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a “pay-to-pollute” system. Polluters buy units to offset their emissions. CO2 storing industries (forestry) get free units, which they can sell (to polluters) when they harvest and replant, or surrender [ More ] [ Read More ]
The Government is winding down a scheme to subsidise the planting of new forests, saying the emissions trading scheme makes it unnecessary.
Labour forestry spokesman Stuart Nash disagrees, saying a range of options is needed to encourage planting and the ETS [ More ] [ Read More ]
