Advancing quantification of Australia's beef cattle and sheep emissions accounts - Carbon sinks and emissions hot spots battle it out en route to net zero

Dominique Bowen Butchart, Karen Michelle Christie-Whitehead, Geoff Roberts, Rowan Eisner, Hayden Reinke, Sineka Munidasa, Ainslie Macdonald, Vaughan Higgins, Natalie Doran-Browne and Matthew Tom Harrison

Agricultural Systems, 2025, vol. 222, issue C

Abstract: Rapid decarbonisation is required to mitigate climate change. An overdependence on land-based carbon capture threatens food production, indigenous and local rights, biodiversity, and climate overshoot. Accurate emissions estimates are important for tracking progress towards net zero goals and efficiently determining land requirements to balance un-avoided emissions.

Keywords: Net zero; Carbon neutral; Greenhouse gas; Emissions; Methane; Livestock; Cattle; Sheep; Sequestration; Forest; Halted deforestation; Mitigation; Climate change; Carbon accounting; Offsetting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104168

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