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OPINION: The farming sector, or at least some parts of it, are preparing for a battle with the Government over its latest international climate change target.

Get out of the Paris Agreement on climate change – that’s the message from the farmer lobby group Groundswell to the Minister for Climate Change, Simon Watts.

Groundswell co-founder Bryce McKenzie says the government’s continued plans for emissions pricing are as bad for farmers as Labour’s plan.

Former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy will be the new chair of the Climate Change Commission.

Farmers have welcomed the Government’s move designed to limit farm to forestry conversions entering the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says updates to the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme have been made to ensure New Zealand has a more credible market.

The secretariat of the Government’s new methane science review panel says support from the agricultural industry is central to developing enduring solutions to agricultural emissions.

The Government has launched its new Climate Strategy, which it says is a comprehensive and ambitious plan to reduce the impact of climate change and prepare for its future effects.

Not all farmers are happy with a new panel set up by the Government to advice on new methane emissions targets.

Farmers and politicians will battle it out at Gisborne this Saturday – on a sports field and all in the name of charity.