The Grattan Institute has released a new report explaining how the agriculture sector – which was responsible for 15% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 – can cut emissions by 50% to help meet any net-zero target.
Below is the Overview combined with key charts:
Governments around the world are moving to ‘net zero’, to limit the impacts of climate change. All Australian state and territory governments have the goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest, and the Prime Minister says the national target is net zero, preferably by 2050.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
