New Zealand Cancels the Climate Change Cow Fart Tax
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The new Conservative New Zealand Coalition Government has cancelled a climate flatulence tax which was due to start in 2025.
New Zealand ends plans to price agricultural emissions
By Lucy Craymer
June 11, 202410:11 AM GMT+10
WELLINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – New Zealand on Tuesday ended a plan to put a price on agricultural emissions including methane produced by belching sheep and cattle, relenting to farmer pressure that the plan would make their business unprofitable.
The conservative government said in a statement it would establish a Pastoral Sector Group with representatives from the agricultural sector to find other ways to reduce biogenic methane.
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The previous government had introduced a plan to charge farmers for their gas emissions from the end of 2025, in what was hailed as a world first.
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