Carbon neutral claims have come under fresh controversy after a senate inquiry into Greenwashing heard an Australian Government certification program, Climate Active, had not been given the stamp approval from the regulator…Read More
Kilcoy Global Foods’ grainfed processing facility north of Brisbane has become the first and only large-scale beef plant in Australia, and potentially the world, to reach certified carbon neutral status…Read More
Beef Central, 18/04/2024
An organisation which has been quietly setting a lot of beef industry targets has made a big shift in its position on carbon credits…Read More
Eric Barker, 18/04/2024
Federal Environment minister Tanya Plibersek has today announced the second stage of the Government’s Nature Positive Plan, pledging to streamline the process for new renewable energy projects and announcing a new national Environmental Protection Agency…Read More
Beef Central, 16/04/2024
We all know about the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, and probably about the carbon contained in plants and the bodies of animals. But a substantial fraction of the carbon in the planet’s land-based ecosystems is held in something so obvious we might overlook it: soil…Read More
Yuanyuan Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Yingping Wang, CSIRO, 15/04/2024
There is a serious need to review and modernise the Australian cattle industry’s emissions targets to prevent cattle from being incorrectly “lumped in” with one-way fossil fuel emitters, Cattle Australia deputy chair Adam Coffey told last week’s ICMJ Northern Conference in Rockhampton…Read More
James Nason, 08/04/2024
While building soil carbon in grazing systems has been garnering plenty of attention, Liverpool Plains grower Scott McCalman says it should also be a focus for cropping. ..Read More
Eric Barker, 05/04/2024
This article is part of a series of case studies AgCarbon Central is doing on producers of all shapes and sizes doing interesting work in the carbon and environmental sectors. Today’s story is on NAPCo, which has been marketing carbon neutral beef since April 2019…Read More
Eric Barker, 04/04/2024
Australia’s carbon market has been called into question again, with a group of scientists alleging that carbon sequestration in a large portion of the projects has been overstated. Its recent coverage highlights the difficult position the livestock industry is in when it comes to land clearing…Read More
Eric Barker, 02/04/2024
Cattle Australia says it hopes to have a definition of deforestation in the Australian context across the supply chain ready for launch at Beef 2024. It comes amid a recent ramping up of reporting requirements across suply chains, which Rabobank’s Angus Gidley-Baird covered in detail at last week’s NTCA annual conference. ..Read More
James Nason, 27/03/2024
Livestock transporters have highlighted some of the harsh truths and opportunities brought about by growing corporate and political pressure to reduce emissions…Read More
Eric Barker, 27/03/2024
New research is investigating the potential of a lick-block formula that could help reduce methane emissions from livestock…Read More
Beef Central, 27/03/2024
