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The Wool Carbon Alliance (WCA) has resolved to reset the carbon agenda and recognise the role sheep play in the natural carbon cycle, a role not properly recognised under current carbon accounting protocols.
WCA chairman Chick Olsson said consumers should be encouraged to rethink their views on sheep and greenhouse gases. While the climate may be changing, so must the understanding that sheep are part of the solution not part of the problem.
Carbon in plants and animals is continually passing through a natural atmospheric carbon cycle where carbon has been recycled for millions of years.
The WCA recognises that wool is 50% carbon by weight. Australian woolgrowers grew 370 million kg of greasy wool in 2009, equating to approximately 500 million kg of CO2 equivalents which have been captured and stored from the atmosphere as each kg of greasy wool stores around 1.3 kg of CO2.
The European Commission reports that a household can cut its CO2 emissions by up to 300kg a year and energy bill by 5-10 per cent simply by reducing its heating by a mere 1
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