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New Zealand commodity prices fell for a seventh straight month in December, with gains in log, beef and lamb prices not enough to offset weaker dairy returns, ANZ Bank’s monthly commodity price index shows.

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Log exports contrast other commodity pricing in December

Forest owners are calling the proposed revisions to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) both timely and necessary if New Zealand is to hope to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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ETS revisions welcomed by NZ forest owners

Last week the Productivity Commission released a draft report for consultation. The focus is on how New Zealand can meet the government’s goal of achieving a net-zero emissions economy by 2050. The report also looks at the goal of reducing emissions by 30 percent on 2005 levels by 2030, as required by the country’s National Determined Commitment under the 2016 Paris global climate change accord. Here are 10 of the commission’s biggest ideas from that report:.

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2018 Forestry rates with Productivity Commission

To read the Summit Forests Export Report for Jan 2016 click here