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As the country struggles to recover from climate-fuelled weather events like Cyclone Gabrielle, the Government has yet to come up with an effective plan to cut emissions from Aotearoa\u2019s biggest polluter.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWhere\u2019s the long-awaited plan to cut agricultural emissions?\u201d asks Greenpeace climate campaigner, Christine Rose.<\/p>\n\n

A Government report<\/a> in response to the industry\u2019s much-derided scheme known as He Waka Eke Noa was circulated before Christmas and looked like giving Aotearoa\u2019s largest emitter – Big Dairy – a free pass.<\/p>\n\n

A final decision was expected to be confirmed by the Cabinet early this year.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cHopefully Chris Hipkins has thrown it in the bin,\u201d says Rose. \u201cHe Waka Eke Noa was an industry partnership, and as such set up to fail from the very beginning.<\/p>\n\n

“Every sign we\u2019ve seen so far is that it will indeed fail the climate, New Zealanders and future generations,\u201d Rose says.<\/p>\n\n

The plan foreshadowed in December includes \u2018the lowest possible price\u2019 on industrial agricultural emissions – which are half of New Zealand\u2019s total greenhouse gasses.<\/p>\n\n

He Waka Eke Noa fails to reduce dairy industry emissions in particular, even though dairy cattle make up a quarter of the country\u2019s total emissions. <\/p>\n\n

The dairy industry is exempt from the Emissions Trading Scheme, and the draft He Waka Eke Noa plan rewards with incentives more than it levies the industry. It\u2019s more a greenwashing tool than a plan for action on climate,\u201d says campaigner Christine Rose.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve suffered back-to-back climate disasters here in Te Ika-a-M\u0101ui this year, so if the Government now fails to protect people from the industry most responsible for driving climate change, there will be some very angry voters in Aotearoa.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Climate concern is a very live issue, climate strikes will take place in nine centres across Aotearoa this Friday 3 March and the latest IPSOS poll<\/a> shows that concern about climate change is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe Government\u2019s credibility on climate is at stake in the He Waka Eke Noa decision,\u201d says Rose. \u201cThis will be a climate election – every child deserves a safe and stable climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cHistory will judge this Government on its imminent decisions on industrial dairy in He Waka Eke Noa. At a time when climate change devastation is in the spotlight, the Government must throw He Waka Eke Noa in the bin. It was never fit for purpose because it lets the country\u2019s worst polluters off the hook, and certainly isn\u2019t fit for purpose now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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