AGRICULTURAL groups have made a big push for recognition of the short-lived nature of livestock methane emissions in the Federal Government’s main climate-related target.
The industry is the first of six sectors the Government is making a “decarbonisation plan” for, in a bid to reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2050 – with written submissions to the plan made public this week.
CSIRO research suggesting the cattle industry could no longer be contributing to additional global warming by 2026 and that the sheep meat sector was already “climate neutral” was a consistent…
