Prof Mark Howden, the director of the Australian National University Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, said the sector’s net zero target is “effectively not possible”.
“It’s pretty well embedded in the public consciousness that red meat is high profile in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per serve,” Howden said.
“I suspect the industry saw this as a fundamental threat to their future … A few years ago everybody was kind of jumping on the net zero bandwagon without actually thinking through what it actually meant,” he said.
The CSIRO found the industry would fall short of meeting its net zero target, and instead recommended the adoption of a “climate-neutral” target that would require a reduction of methane emissions rather their complete elimination.
The usual problem with industrial self-imposed targets and regulations: They were never intended to be met, but just made up to avoid proper, working regulation by law.
We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas!
The fact that they couldn’t even bother to fudge this with shady offsets should tell you all you need to know.
seaweed tho!
Let’s help the animal industry to reach net zero.
