Canterbury Mornings

Farmers and the Government will work shoulder-to-shoulder, in what's being touted as huge action on climate change.They'll develop tools to measure and price emissions at farm level by 2025.If there's not enough action by 2022, the sector could be brought into the Emissions Trading Scheme at processor level.National Leader Simon Bridges supports the move to work with farmers to develop a framework to reduce emissions. However he told Chris Lynch there needs to be science based, actual mitigation options available to farmers that are economic. Otherwise all you are doing is culling the herd and lowering food production which just makes New Zealand poorer and means we can't have better health, education and infrastructure.