Australian red meat sector sets 2030 carbon neutral target at Alice Springs producer forum

Research and marketing group Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) says the country's red meat industry could be carbon neutral by 2030.

Richard Norton says the target will prove farming
 red meat is environmentally sustainable.

The challenge was set for the cattle and sheep sectors by managing director Richard Norton during his address at the MLA annual general meeting in Alice Springs on Wednesday.

It follows the start of a CSIRO research project in the past 12 months, funded by MLA, to identify ways the industry could become carbon neutral.

In 2015, a separate study by CSIRO found cattle and sheep produced almost 70 per cent of Australian agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions.

Read the ABC News story - “Australian red meat sector sets 2030 carbon neutral target at Alice Springs producer forum.”

(The idea that Australia’s red meat industry - particularly red meat from sheep and cattle - will ever be carbon neutral is fanciful as all the evidence points precisely in the wrong direction - Robert McLean)