Summaries - Australian Financial Review
Tuesday 3/3/2009 Page: 5
New research funded by the Federal Government will look at the role soil plays in storing and releasing greenhouses gases, as it seeks ways to involve farmers in climate change policy. Agriculture Minister Tony Burke announces today a $20 million study into how to measure and analyse soil carbon and a $12 million study on nitrous oxide emissions from soils.
The research would be revealed at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics annual outlook conference. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told the same conference last year the government would investigate soil carbon. Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull's response to climate change relies on the role soil and forest play in sequestering carbon. Agriculture accounts for about 16% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, while farm emissions are not included in the government's emissions trading scheme that starts in 2010.
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