The Government has once again kicked the climate action can down the road by removing agricultural emissions from the Emissions Trading Scheme. 

Only the Green Party has a plan to reduce agricultural emissions at the scale and pace needed. The Labour Cabinet’s plan for pricing agriculture emissions announced today falls short.

Following decades of work by the Green Party alongside the organics sector, people will finally be able to be confident that products labelled organic have met standards.

Evidence shows that relying on offsets to reduce agriculture’s impact on the climate will not work, the Green Party says.

Minister O’Connor should immediately pause the Government’s proposed Fonterra Bill and review its potential impact on the climate, the Green Party says. 

Cutting climate pollution must be the number one priority for Cabinet when considering how it intends to price agricultural emissions, the Green Party says. 

The He Waka Eke Noa agricultural emissions pricing proposal leaves more questions than answers, the Green Party says.

The Green Party is calling on the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor to phase out the use of the Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) on farms to help address the climate crisis.

Responding to new research showing the link between cancer and nitrates in drinking water, the Green Party is calling on the Government to immediately start phasing out the use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.