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

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...