Heavy lifting ahead for emissions partnership

Heavy lifting ahead for emissions partnership
Gavin Evans
Farming groups will spend at least $25 million a year to develop tools and technologies for measuring and reducing agricultural emissions while working with government to develop an on-farm emissions pricing system by 2025.The five-year agreement, heralded as a “world-first” partnership between government and farmers to reduce agricultural emissions, pledges the 11 agricultural groups to have all farmers know their emissions by 2022. An emissions reporting and benchmarking system will be piloted in 2024 and be in place at a farm level the follo...

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