In this week’s “Opinion Maker”, proudly supported by our friends at Farmlands, the Climate Change Commission has a target of 300,000ha of new native forests by 2035.

How will this be incentivised the same way radiata pine plantation has been under the Billion Trees programme?

Guests :

•  Rakaia farmer & conservationist, Andrew Luddington explains that native trees need to be a priority and re-design the ETS to New Zealand’s unique vision for biodiversity
• Forever Forest’s forest manager, Adrian Loo, provides his insights from working with land-owners to fund and support the planting of permanent native tree forests and the value to the farming operation financially into the long-term
• On the panel, Tane Tree Trust and Cambridge farmer Ian Brennan explains how biodiversity credits could help incentive farmers, and Agribusiness Group environmental consultant, Sam Mander, explains how land-owners need to be profitable to be environmental philanthropists. 

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