Stop carbon farming now....

[king1]

by "source of truth" we are referring to the PM?  

Yep - you know, she stood up and said if you don't hear it from the horses mouth then it's not true.

The ETS has been around since 2002 and successive governments have been tinkering with it over the years, maybe you could mention which part of it was sheer incompetence on her part?

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Explained here: https://www.motu.nz/assets/Documents/our...ummary.pdf



The "quick buck" issue has more to do with the typical landowner who prioritises ROI from their efforts, which is more aligned to NACT ideology.

I am referring to farmers not being permitted to include natives, riparian planting, shelter belts etc. in the carbon sequestration equation - it's only pine trees, and if you've ever walked through a pine plantation it's effectively scorched earth underneath the canopy.

i'm sure they had their reasons for excluding riparian planting, shelter belts etc  There has to be some limitations in the ETS otherwise you would probably end up with an exploited system that doesn't achieve the aims that it was designed to achieve.    

Natives are ok as far as I can tell, as long as they meet the requirements... post 1990 for natives by the looks of it

Edit to add: I guess because the whole point of the ETS is to encourage plantings and add costs to emitters, so if you're wanting to add your 100 year old native forest you have in the backyard then it really isn't achieving any of the aims of the ETS.  It would simply be providing a windfall for the owners of such land...  Make sense?