New Zealand – dubbed the Saudi Arabia of milk for its dominant role in global dairy trade – wants its farmers to pay a world-first levy on agricultural emissions by 2025 to help reduce agriculture's climate footprint.
Farm groups in New Zealand want to help set the price of the agriculture levy and are pushing for ways to offset the costs. Some worry the proposal will disproportionately hurt sheep and beef ranchers, and Indigenous Māori who farm up to a quarter of those farms, often on marginal land.
Already, some New Zealand ranchers are selling their land to property developers and forestry investors keen to cash in on so-called carbon farming. New Zealand is the only country to allow fossil fuel emitters to offset 100 percent of their emissions through growing trees, which absorb carbon dioxide.Farmers are also under pressure from rising gas prices and interest rates, along with stricter regulations on water use. For some, the proposed agriculture levy is the last straw.
New Zealand has been here before. The idea of taxing farmers over livestock methane was first floated 20 years ago, prompting fierce backlash. One rural lawmaker, Shane Ardern — a distant cousin of the. Another lawmaker led two cows up the chamber’s speckled granite steps. A pile of cow dung left in their wake perhaps summed up the political mood toward the proposal, which was ultimately abandoned.
Speaking to farmers at November’s exhibition, New Zealand’s agriculture minister, Damien O’Connor, appealed to their concern over extreme weather.“Many of you will have been around the world. That’s when you start to pick up on the signals of climate change. The floods in Florida. The wildfires in California. The droughts in Europe. People are scratching their heads and wondering: What next?” he said.
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