NZ Politics

Sorry David but we're running out of time on this.

The party would also remove barriers to the uptake of emissions-reducing technologies and allow on-farm sequestration, he said.

We could use proceeds from the ETS to fund these types of projects so that farmers pay less in the long run. The additional cost burden of ETS on polluters will help push them to find ways to reduce pollution, and we can use it to help fund the solutions. It's the carrot and the stick approach, but Seymour is pretending there is no carrot here.