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Wayne Langford: Federated Farmers President on ACT's call to withdraw from the Paris Agreement · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Are our climate targets getting in the way of our productivity?
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  Speaker 1: Both act in New Zealand first have pledged to pull
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  Speaker 1: out of the Paris Accords on their serious changes are made.
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  Speaker 1: They say this is to stop putting pressure on farmers.
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  Speaker 1: So how do farmers feel about this move? Wayne Langford
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  Speaker 1: is Fed Farmers National President and joins me, Now go
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  Speaker 1: on into your Wayne morning Andrek, what do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the start of an encouraging conversation, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a bit of political postom. I think
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  Speaker 2: really what we'd like is some action being taken to
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  Speaker 2: to actually make those changes, rather than just talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we all know that the Paris Climate Accords for
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  Speaker 1: the globe and not working. The emission trading scheme is
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  Speaker 1: not working. It needs to be changed. But wood pulling
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  Speaker 1: out of the accords actually put us in the naughty
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  Speaker 1: corner and hurt farmers more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's you know, that's certainly one view on it.
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  Speaker 2: That the challenge for us is why the government just
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  Speaker 2: getting on and making the changes that are needed so
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  Speaker 2: that not only the rulesick that can prosper, but also
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  Speaker 2: the New Zealand compostor because as you mentioned, it is
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  Speaker 2: holding back some of the New Zealand's prosperity. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what the two parties are talking about. They're saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: how do we adjustice to make this a fit better
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  Speaker 2: of what New Zealand is? Well, the last time I checked,
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  Speaker 2: how you guys are in government? Why don't you change it?
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  Speaker 2: Get on and do it.
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  Speaker 1: So let me get this right. Are you saying, yes,
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  Speaker 1: stay in the Paris Climate Accords, but for God's sake,
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  Speaker 1: try and make some changes to the whole things. Meanwhile
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  Speaker 1: in our domestic economy, make things more rational.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what we're saying is the climate rules were set
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  Speaker 2: for ourselves, a New Zealand hero. What causing the problem
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily the Paris Agreement in itself. So we've got
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  Speaker 2: overly ambitious methane targets. We're planning, we're doing full farm
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  Speaker 2: from conversions into forestry conversions. We were still talking about planning,
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  Speaker 2: pricing and egg commissions. Why don't we just scrapple that.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we get that sorted so that farmers know
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  Speaker 2: where we're sitting and we know what we're doing in
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  Speaker 2: the country.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting a few techs from farmers right now. Who's saying, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm carbon neutral already. You know, we're actually doing a
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  Speaker 1: very good job of producing very efficient meat with as
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  Speaker 1: low a mission as you can possibly have. So are
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  Speaker 1: farmers feeling more appreciated with this new government than before?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely they are, and we're certainly seeing that and
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  Speaker 2: the results that we're getting through in our surveying as well.
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  Speaker 2: And while there is a lot of sentiment out there
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  Speaker 2: around pulling out of Paris, I think when you dig
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  Speaker 2: deeper and they're looking to what's actually holding Paris back,
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  Speaker 2: it is actually what we're setting on ourselves as the government.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what that's what we're saying about this announcement. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we appreciate the conversation. We like what you're talking about here.
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  Speaker 2: Both acton news on first. But by the way you
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  Speaker 2: guys are in government, you guys can make these changes. Now,
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  Speaker 2: just get on and make these changes that farmers have
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  Speaker 2: got a clear road ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne. I thank you so much, Wayne Langford from Federated Farmers.
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