Photo: RNZ/Carol Stiles
This week the Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton called for a big shake up of the Emissions Trading Scheme.
The ETS as it is known - is supposed to be one-way big polluters can off-set their carbon emissions.
They do this by buying 'credits' based on tree planting, forestry blocks - that sequester the carbon.
But Upton said at the release of his report into the scheme this week - that it was mostly a 'tree planting scheme' that did little to cut planet-heating gases.
Blair Jamieson (Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa) runs a company called Tāmata Hauhā. It won the supreme prize last year at the Te Mana Atatū Māori Business awards for its work helping landowners, particularly Māori, get into the ETS scheme.
