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Kate Acland: Beef + Lamb NZ Chair on the research finding incentives could help farmers reduce emissions · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New research from Beef and Lamb says we need more
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  Speaker 1: incentives for farmers rather than charging them for emissions. This
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  Speaker 1: is to wean them off. They say most markets outside
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  Speaker 1: of New Zealand offer incentives for adopting technology and processes.
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  Speaker 1: Kadakin Beef and Lamb, New Zealand chair with us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, kay morning, right, So are you not actually
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  Speaker 1: asking for subsidies and incentives here are you?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Look what this report does is it looks at
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  Speaker 2: what's happening in climate change policy with regard to agricultural
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  Speaker 2: emissions across the world. And that's really important because we
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  Speaker 2: sell on a global stage and as you know, recently
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  Speaker 2: our methane targets have been revived and taking we took
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  Speaker 2: pricing of agricultural emissions off the table, and you know
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  Speaker 2: that might have felt like a bit of a backward step,
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  Speaker 2: but actually that just puts us right in line with
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  Speaker 2: what the rest of the world's doing. And that's a
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  Speaker 2: really important thing.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a twenty to fifty target, but we
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  Speaker 1: have no steps to get there, right.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the rest of the world doesn't have agricultural
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  Speaker 2: specific targets. And you know what this also showed is
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  Speaker 2: that internationally, a lot of most countries are looking at
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  Speaker 2: subsidizing their farmers to reach any or you know, incentivizing
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  Speaker 2: their farmers to reach any reductions, and one's not doing that,
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  Speaker 2: And we're not necessarily calling for that, but we're just
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  Speaker 2: saying that we need to have an eye on what
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the world's doing, and we need to
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  Speaker 2: be smarter and refocus on reduction through efficiency, efficiency gains,
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  Speaker 2: or addressing things like fossil fuel emissions where we've actually
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  Speaker 2: got the technology to do it easily.
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  Speaker 1: Kate. I know what the climate people are going to
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  Speaker 1: say to you, Kate. They're going to say, well, the
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  Speaker 1: agriculture missions in u Zena make up more of our
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  Speaker 1: greenhouse gases like half as opposed to the Aussies who
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  Speaker 1: you've mentioned in this report are on eighteen percent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean absolutely acknowledge that and acknowledge that
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  Speaker 2: we've all got a role to play. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, there's there are existing technologies and ways
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  Speaker 2: to address things like fossil fuel emissions, and we should
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  Speaker 2: focus on that and look while we sort of play
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  Speaker 2: catch up and find out what were the agriculture space.
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  Speaker 2: But look, as I said before, we compete globally, we
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  Speaker 2: sell our products globally. We've got to have an eye
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  Speaker 2: to what the rest of the world is doing about
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  Speaker 2: emissions from food production and we can't lose sight of
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  Speaker 2: the fact that actually we are a food producing nation.
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