Labor is pushing farmers and the broader agricultural sector to deliver a more ambitious climate agenda by tackling major sources of emissions such as methane from cows, or suffer a potential backlash from offshore customers led by Europe.

The politically challenging and hard-to-abate agricultural sector accounts for about 17 per cent of national emissions, a proportion that is set to rise in coming decades, making it one of the primary targets for action to deliver Australia’s legislated net-zero target by 2050.