A target of “climate neutrality” appears realistically achievable by the Australian red meat industry by 2026, a report prepared by CSIRO scientist Dr Brad Ridoutt for Meat & Livestock Australia has found.
But on the question of “carbon neutrality” – the specific goal the Australian red meat industry has set itself to achieve by 2030 – the report’s conclusions are less bullish (more below).
The purpose of the CSIRO report, which was completed in late March and published to the MLA website in recent days, was to identify and…