Front-line climate change troops change their position

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armers are thought by many to be the front-line troops when it comes to the struggle with climate change.

Whatever, the peak NSW farm lobby group has shifted its climate change policy stance and has called on governments to back "the transition from fossil fuels".

Environment editor with the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hannam, has written about New South Wales changing their stance of climate change mitigation.

“The NSW Farmers Association ended its annual conference on Wednesday by voting to remove clauses in its official policy that had called for a royal commission "to explore the scientific veracity and soundness of claims that carbon is a pollutant" and to investigate "whether the activities of mankind are responsible for causing any change".

“In their place, members voted to replace those calls with a recognition that primary producers "are on the front lines of seasonal variability, exacerbated by a changing climate", he wrote.

Read Hannam’s story - “Climate change: NSW Farmers Association changes policy, calls for fossil fuels transition”.