Balanced News: Government makes changes to farm-level emissions pricing plan

After an outcry from farmers the government has made some changes to its proposal to price agricultural carbon emissions. Instead of using the rising price of carbon to drive change, as the Climate Change Commission suggested, the government is now going to set the levy price as low as possible. He Waka Eke Noa partners, who jointly submitted on emissions pricing, said the report was moving in the right direction on the pricing system, though there was still work to do on the detail.