Australian farmers should consider measuring their greenhouse gas emissions even though they are not yet obliged to do so, a lobby group said here on Tuesday.
Nicolette Boele, director of strategic projects with the Agricultural Alliance on Climate Change, which is connected with the Climate Institute lobby group, urged farmers to get moving on measuring their emissions.
Agriculture is widely tipped to be excluded from Australia's Emissions Trading Scheme when it starts operating in 2010. This is largely because of the difficulty in measuring agricultural emissions, which come from sources like cattle burping up methane.
She told a senate meeting that farmers should start up a voluntary carbon market to "learn by doing", which would involve taking a risk but there would be possible rewards for the early movers.
"Internationally, there'd be a lot of pressure on Australia in the long run to cover emissions from the agriculture sector," Boele said.
Source:Xinhua
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