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For farmers, climate change is both headache and a motivator

Unlike coal, there is no easy substitute for meat or dairy produced by belching livestock. But farmers do have other options in their own hands.

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s herd of grazing cattle and sheep will be hard to deliver. That’s partly why political leaders often exclude agricultural emissions from their climate change policies. Yet net zero without agriculture is simply not net zero.

It is not possible to reach net zero without farmers on board.  Bloomberg

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Tony Wood is head of the energy program at the Grattan Institute.

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