WITH some of the beef industry’s biggest supply chains committing to rapidly reducing emissions in the coming decades, the idea of keeping carbon credits to maintain future cattle market access is a growing conversation.
Before the idea of insetting came in, the concept of the carbon market was reasonably straight-forward. Big emitting companies – like mining, electricity, transport or tech – were being forced to reduce their emissions and they mainly did that by purchasing carbon credits from farmers who had proven they had taken emissions out of the atmosphere through forests,…
