According to foreign media reports, the New Zealand government released a draft plan on the 8th local time, which will price agricultural emissions in order to solve one of the country's largest sources of greenhouse gases, that is, the gases emitted by the hiccups of cattle and sheep. The new environment ministry said the proposal would make New Zealand, a major agricultural exporter, the first country to let farmers pay for livestock emissions.
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It is reported that New Zealand has only about 5million people, but it has nearly 10million cattle and 26million sheep. It is reported that nearly half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane, but agricultural emissions have previously been exempted from the country's emissions trading scheme, which has attracted criticism of the New Zealand government.
Foreign media said that according to the draft plan jointly formulated by the government and representatives of farm communities, farmers will have to pay for their gas emissions from 2025. The report also said that the short-term and long-term farm gas will be priced separately, but a single measurement method will be used to calculate the volume.
New Zealand climate change minister James Shaw said: "there is no doubt that we need to reduce the amount of methane emitted into the atmosphere. An effective agricultural emission pricing system will play a key role in how we achieve this goal." Foreign media said that it is expected that the final decision of the plan will be made in December this year.