Election 2017 - Party Policies - Environment - Carbon Tax
27th May 17, 9:47am
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- Replace the Emissions Trading Scheme with a new Kiwi Climate Fund, responsible for charging climate polluters, providing payments to foresters and recycling revenue back to all New Zealanders as an annual dividend (estimated to be $250 per person in 2020).
- The Climate Commission will advise on prices, but initial payments and charges in 2020 are expected to be: $40 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions, $6 per tonne of nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture, $3 per tonne of methane emissions from agriculture, $40 guaranteed payment for each tonne of carbon sequestered by eligible forests.
- A transition fund to protect vulnerable businesses, workers and households to enable them to adjust during a transition period.
- Read more here and here.
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- Consult on changes to our air quality standards to align with international science based policy while balancing home heating needs.
- Tighten fuel standards for petrol by July 2018 to reduce pollutants.
- Read more here.
- Support the establishment of a formal planning process to develop strategies, plans, research programmes and targets to achieve fossil carbon reduction relevant to New Zealand.
- Read more here.
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