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

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  Speaker 1: Meat Industry Association likes the government's moved to scrap agriculture
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  Speaker 1: from the emissions trading scheme. It would have seen farmers
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  Speaker 1: pay for additional emissions units, of course used above their alliance.
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  Speaker 1: So what fills the gap Jason Crupper's with the Meat
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  Speaker 1: Industry Association and is what this Jason morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Basically it was a bit of common sense, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: But that would be our opinion of this. Essentially, it's
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  Speaker 2: a step in the right direction towards actually finding solutions
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  Speaker 2: rather than punishing the sectors.
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  Speaker 1: Previous government presented Heywakana as being Hey, it's all combay
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  Speaker 1: our and we're all in this together. Was that ever
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  Speaker 1: actually the case from the meat or the farming community's
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  Speaker 1: point of view.
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  Speaker 2: Look, ohwaka had many flaws, but one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that was remarkable about it is how the agricultural sector
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  Speaker 2: got around the table and panel beat it a solution
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  Speaker 2: under some pretty challenging writing instructions. I don't think government
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  Speaker 2: was ever fully committed to that process. I mean, by
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  Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty two of solution was handed
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  Speaker 2: to them and they just sat on it for nine
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  Speaker 2: months exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So you've still got to find something. What do you
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  Speaker 1: do now?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think that's really for this past all Sector
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  Speaker 2: group that's been established to hammer out one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that we think as the red meat sector, industry
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  Speaker 2: and processes is that it's really important to bear in
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  Speaker 2: mind where markets are going to land on climate change,
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  Speaker 2: on what they want to see from their supply chains,
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  Speaker 2: and that this has factored into that process, because, with
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  Speaker 2: all due respect to governments around the world, it's really markets, customers,
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  Speaker 2: businesses and individuals who are going to decide climate change.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. I'm sure you're aware of what doesn't sit
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  Speaker 1: across the Tasman and that he worries about Paris, he
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  Speaker 1: worries about whether it's all unobtainable. It's all very well
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  Speaker 1: to promise stuff if it's not real. Do you find
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  Speaker 1: any of this reel? Is it doable or not? Really?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think the facts speak for themselves. In New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen greenhouse gas emissions fall on a gross rate
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  Speaker 2: based on the numbers ilast saw and looking at the
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  Speaker 2: sheep and beaf sector for example, they're being significant planes
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  Speaker 2: in greenhouse definitions and we've we believe there's further research
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  Speaker 2: in the works that's going to show that this trend
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  Speaker 2: is continuing. So you know, the most efficient farmers in
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  Speaker 2: the world are again proving that they can do it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the four hundred million committed by the
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  Speaker 2: government invests into new technologies in the space is definitely
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  Speaker 2: a welcome announcement that's going to boost that.
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  Speaker 1: So exactly good on You're Jason, good to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with you appreciate it very much, Jason crup Meat Industry Association.
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