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With its belching cows and giant diesel-powered tractors, the farm sector is widely known to be an important contributor to Australias impact on climate change. Just how important, however, is not often recognised.
In its latest National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, for the year 2006, the federal Department of Climate Change calculates the share of national greenhouse gas emissions coming from agriculture and stock-raising at 15.6% (expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent).
Though substantial, this figure is much less than the 49.9% attributed to
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