Dairy Australia’s new climate plan released

Dairy Australia managing director David Nation said his organisation’s climatic blueprint recognised that responding to climate change was one of its highest priorities.

Dairy Australia boss David Nation has released his organisation’s climate plan. Picture Kym Smith

A CLIMATE change blueprint has been released by Dairy Australia — outlining the organisation’s priorities across research and development for the coming five years.

The DA plan follows on from the Australian Dairy Industry Sustainability Framework, which sets out a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the dairy industry by 30 per cent by the end of this decade.

Dairy Australia managing director David Nation said his organisation’s climatic blueprint recognised that responding to climate change was one of its highest priorities.

“The strategy is about enabling a climate committed Australian dairy industry with cost effective and achievable actions,” he said.

“It provides a clear vision and pathway towards realising our climate goals

and includes success measures for farmers to gauge how they are tracking.

“(Research) investment and programs that help farmers adapt to climate risk and farm profitably and sustainably are integrated across our organisation.

“Consumers and trading partners also want to know that our milk is produced with a low carbon footprint, so awareness of our proactive role in environmental stewardship is also very important and will be a key theme in our industry marketing.”

Dairy Australia’s climate and energy group leader Alison Kelly said the strategy had been developed with input from dairy farmers and industry bodies.

“The strategy prioritises our (research) efforts across climate change adaptation, linking climate action with environmental stewardship and solutions for addressing emissions,” she said.

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