NG-004··National-led government (ACT confidence & supply)·programme
Agriculture excluded from ETS review
Harm -1What happened
Launched the 2015-2016 NZ ETS review but explicitly excluded agricultural biological emissions from scope, reaffirming indefinite deferral of farm-sector pricing.
Why it matters
NZ's largest emissions source (~50%) remained outside the primary carbon-pricing instrument.
Impact assessment
Sustained exclusion of the dominant emissions sector weakens economy-wide mitigation.
Scale: ~50% gross emissions sector
Attribution
sole (high confidence) -National
Climate Change Minister Tim Groser ETS review announcement.
Coalition period: National-led government (ACT confidence & supply) (20 September 2014 - 26 October 2017)
Categories
governancemitigation