Will your Sunday roast really be carbon neutral by 2030?
www.abc.net.au
The red meat industry concedes it could fall short of its ambitious target, but insists it still has seven years and a solid plan to get there.

A CSIRO report claims Australia’s red meat industry will miss its much-publicised target to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Meat and Livestock Australia managing director Jason Strong said the industry was only missing its mark by 10 per cent and better take-up of new abatement programs would help it over the line.

The red meat industry decided in 2017 to set a target that would create a key point of difference for Australian beef, lamb and goat in a competitive global protein market.

The CSIRO report, calculating emissions from 1990 to 2020, showed the industry’s footprint would grow by 12.2 megatonnes of CO2, equivalent to 63.5 megatonnes in 2030.

The industry is also using other natural sequestration assets in its calculations to achieving carbon neutrality, including trees on farm, soil carbon storage, and savannah burning management.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺OPMEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I apologise in advance to any vegans reading.

    Edit: I’ve also modified the sidebar to include a trigger warning for Vegans. In these early days, and if I’m the only person posting, I will be pulling in agricultural news which includes animal agriculture. This may be about animals farmed for meat.

    Say what you want, but a huge part of Australia is animal agriculture and it sucks, but it’s a reality. I will be posting negative animal agriculture news so if you have news relating to the stopping of animal ag in Aus, post it! Even if you give me some links to a good independent Australian vegan news site that tackles this issue so I can trawl it for new content.

    I only add sites to my list as I find them.