New Zealand Farmers Offer to Pay Flatulent Tax to Help Emissions Targets

New Zealand Farmers Offer to Pay Flatulent Tax to Help Emissions Targets
A cow eating grass on a dairy farm near Cambridge, New Zealand, on May 31, 2018. William West/AFP via Getty Images
Rebecca Zhu
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New Zealand’s agriculture leaders have released a plan for the sector to have its own pricing system on gas emissions from 2025 in a bid to avoid joining the nation’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

The agriculture sector is the country’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions but is exempt from its ETS, drawing significant criticism.