New Zealand Farmers and the Burp Tax: Balancing the Economy and the Environment

內容大綱
New Zealand’s economy was based on agriculture, which comprised 50 per cent of the country’s national greenhouse gas emissions. In 2008, the government imposed a cap-and-trade system—known as the Emissions Trading System (ETS)—but had excluded the agriculture industry at the time. Recently, the government had been considering imposing a carbon tax at the farm level by 2025 to incentivize livestock farmers to reduce their emissions. However, there was significant backlash from the industry, and the government continued to delay implementing the tax. Would it be possible to propel the country into a new era of net-zero-carbon agriculture without destabilizing the meat and dairy industries?
學習目標
After working through the case and assignment questions, students should be able to<ul><li>evaluate the impact of a carbon tax system on different stakeholders and understand its long-term implications;</li><li>examine traditional methods of sustainable farming to determine whether lessons can be applied to current farming methods; and</li><li>analyze existing nature-based emissions reduction solutions and how they could be implemented.</li></ul>
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