Jason Krupp: Meat Industry Association Advocacy Manager on the Government's decision to work with farmers to price emissions

The Government's decision to work with farmers to price their emissions by 2030 is being welcomed by the industry. 

A law change will stop farming being charged through the Emissions Trading Scheme, which offsets credits against emitting.  

It was a fallback option if partnership group He Waka Eka Noa didn't find an alternative for agriculture. 

Meat Industry Association advocacy manager Jason Krupp told Mike Hosking that the previous Government wasn't fully committed to finding a solution. 

He says a solution was handed to them by the end of 2022, which they sat on for nine months. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Meat Industry Association likes the government's moved to scrap agriculture
from the emissions trading scheme. It would have seen farmers
pay for additional emissions units, of course used above their alliance.
So what fills the gap Jason Crupper's with the Meat
Industry Association and is what this Jason morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Basically it was a bit of common sense, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
But that would be our opinion of this. Essentially, it's
a step in the right direction towards actually finding solutions
rather than punishing the sectors.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Previous government presented Heywakana as being Hey, it's all combay
our and we're all in this together. Was that ever
actually the case from the meat or the farming community's
point of view.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Look, ohwaka had many flaws, but one of the things
that was remarkable about it is how the agricultural sector
got around the table and panel beat it a solution
under some pretty challenging writing instructions. I don't think government
was ever fully committed to that process. I mean, by
the end of twenty twenty two of solution was handed

(00:57):
to them and they just sat on it for nine
months exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So you've still got to find something. What do you
do now?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Look, I think that's really for this past all Sector
group that's been established to hammer out one of the
things that we think as the red meat sector, industry
and processes is that it's really important to bear in
mind where markets are going to land on climate change,
on what they want to see from their supply chains,
and that this has factored into that process, because, with

(01:26):
all due respect to governments around the world, it's really markets, customers,
businesses and individuals who are going to decide climate change.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's funny. I'm sure you're aware of what doesn't sit
across the Tasman and that he worries about Paris, he
worries about whether it's all unobtainable. It's all very well
to promise stuff if it's not real. Do you find
any of this reel? Is it doable or not? Really?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Look, I think the facts speak for themselves. In New Zealand,
we've seen greenhouse gas emissions fall on a gross rate
based on the numbers ilast saw and looking at the
sheep and beaf sector for example, they're being significant planes
in greenhouse definitions and we've we believe there's further research
in the works that's going to show that this trend
is continuing. So you know, the most efficient farmers in

(02:08):
the world are again proving that they can do it.
And you know, the four hundred million committed by the
government invests into new technologies in the space is definitely
a welcome announcement that's going to boost that.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
So exactly good on You're Jason, good to catch up
with you appreciate it very much, Jason crup Meat Industry Association.
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