July 21, 2009

While the world appears to be headed towards some form of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction scheme, how we get there appears less certain. The struggle centers around who actually has to make the cuts. Hardly a sector of the economy is not affected, and if it's related to fossil fuels, it's going to hurt. So where does agriculture fit into all of this?

Extracted from Environmental Management News  

Tom Fearon
Monday, 3 August 2009

Soils, trees and the ocean slugged it out as the best methods of carbon bio-sequestration at an Environment Business Australia (EBA) conference in Sydney last week. The forum gave the stage to a scientist, soil carbon campaigner and even an owner of a major brown coal company who argued the mineral's case for countering carbon and weaning Australia off its Arab oil addiction.