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Farmers need certainty over emissions pricing – removing government from the equation might help

  • Written by Zack Dorner, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Waikato
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The most important part of the government’s proposed agricultural emissions pricing scheme is the price. This may seem obvious – but the government has failed to provide a clear indication of what the price will be and how it will be set.

Unfortunately, this uncertainty is already undermining what is otherwise a very good...

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