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CATTLE Australia (CA) has urged the federal government to rethink the role of methane in the beef industry in its decisions on how Australia will tackle climate change in the future. CA, which is the peak council for the grassed beef sector, said a single focus on absolute emissions reduction under current carbon dioxide-equivalent accounting frameworks was detrimental for the beef industry. “Emerging science changes the perception that livestock are large emitters and therefore must be accounted for differently in the future,” CA’s chief executive officer, Dr Chris Parker, said in the organisation’s submission to the federal government’s proposed Agriculture and Land Sectoral Plan, which aims to guide Australia’s 2050 net-zero ambition. “Methane emissions from livestock are part of a biogenic cycle. They have a
different impact on global temperature rise than emissions from fossil fuels, which persist in the atmosphere for thousands of years and are inherently linked with storage within soil and vegetation.” Dr Parker said the grass-fed beef industry would become climate neutral, having no additional impact on global temperature rises. “The beef industry is an important part of the solution to global warming. Considering the cyclical short-lived nature of biogenic methane, emissions targets for the grass-fed cattle industry that strive to net zero should be avoided and alternative ‘better’ metrics,” he said. “Future targets need to stimulate optimising positive impact on the climate, not detrimental to profitability and productivity to our sector.” Beef and dairy are key parts of Gippsland’s $7 billion food and fibre sector, which in turn make up almost half of Gippsland’s $16 billion gross regional product.
Dr Parker pointed out that grass-fed producers were the custodians to almost 80 per cent of Australia’s agricultural land, which is more than 50 per cent of Australia’s total land mass. “The Australian beef industry has made a leading contribution to combat further global warming, and with the right support in coming years will achieve the state of climate neutral having no additional impact on global temperature rise,” he said. An ABARES report last year found that even with the CO2e accounting methodology, Australia’s emissions intensities are below average for cattle compared to other major developed producers and export countries. “Australia reduced agricultural emissions more than most other developed countries in the last 30 years,” Dr Parker said. There were also demands from special interest groups and popular media to reduce meat consumption, to reduce global warming.
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“Calls for consumers to reduce meat consumption to reduce their carbon footprint are simplistic, ideological and do not consider the societal, nutritional and environmental benefits of ruminant production is a sustainable food system.” CA also emphasised the need for a serious review of Australian national parks and conservation areas in order to limit bushfire emissions and halt associated biodiversity loss. “While emissions measurement and increasing regulation apply to agriculture, annual bushfire emissions are not accounted for ... and are referred to as being part of ‘fast carbon cycles’ - biological processes include photosynthesis, plant respiration and decomposition,” he said. “Over the past decade, Australia has emitted about 485 million tonnes of CO2 per annum ... which is a similar amount to Australia’s anthropogenic emissions.” Continued - Page 2
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