Request for copies of any advice and Cabinet papers on the decision to exclude agricultural emissions from the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Response date
24 November 2025
Type
Departmental
Request for copies of any advice and Cabinet papers on the decision to exclude agricultural emissions from the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Response date
24 November 2025
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
On the 12 October the Government announced a decision not to proceed with future agricultural emissions pricing, which included the following statement:
no tax on agricultural methane emissions as this would risk closing down farms and send jobs and production overseas. Reductions in methane to meet the targets will be achieved in partnership and through industry leadership and processor incentives following the lead of companies like Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms.
Could I please have copies of any advice (including draft advice) regarding this decision.
Could I also please have any cabinet papers (including draft papers) regarding this decision.
Response Documents
Briefings and Cabinet papers - Advice on the exclusion of agricultural emissions from the ETS
- BRF-6320 – Briefing: Further 2050 target advice: policy impacts - 06 June 2025
- BRF-5983 - Draft Cabinet paper: Resetting the 2050 domestic emissions reduction target - 10 July 2025
- BRF-6279 - Briefing: 2050 target - additional legislative changes and implications of decisions - 22 August 2025
- BRF-6741 - Options to maintain the currency of ERP2 - 28 August 2025
- BRF-6730 - Cabinet material for 2025 adaptive management assessment and Government response to Climate Change Commission’s annual monitoring report - 8 September 2025
- CAB-592 - Updating the 2050 domestic climate change emissions target - 23 September 2025
- BRF-6873 - Briefing: 2025 adaptive management assessment and Government response to the Climate Change Commission's emissions reduction monitoring report – approval to lodge Cabinet paper - 29 September 2025
- Draft discussion document to support consultation on the ERP2 amendment - 13 October 2025
- CAB-571 - Progress Towards Second Emissions Budget and Government Response to Climate Change Commission’s Emissions Monitoring Report - 07 November 2025
- Draft Cabinet paper (incorporating the Minister of Climate Change's comments)