Farming groups and rural communities have been raising concerns over forestry conversions for years.

ETS is the government's major tool for lowering planet-heating gases that contribute to heating, droughts and extreme floods and storms around the globe.

New Zealand's current target is to cut net emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

The Government would more than a year's worth of the whole country's greenhouse gases short of meeting its international promises, by latest calculations.