What are the opportunities to reduce emissions and build carbon stores in agriculture and the land? What are the main barriers to action? What are the practical solutions to increase uptake? There exists a suite of opportunities currently employed by and undergoing exploration by the sector to reduce emissions at the direct source (point), site, or atmospheric level, and build carbon stores on lan. [...] What new initiatives could the Australian Government design that would support emissions reduction and carbon storage in agriculture and land and help ensure a productive, profitable, resilient, and sustainable future for the sectors? Given risk is a major barrier to innovation, Government must improve the attractiveness and feasibility of the ‘trialability’ of new technologies to incentivise part. [...] Coordination • AGMIN and its Climate Change Task Group to engage with industry on its national action plan as a matter of urgency and commit to publicly reporting on progress; • The Commonwealth must ensure that the complexity of agriculture’s climate change interaction are considered in the development of all relevant sector plans especially the Agriculture and Land sector plan; and • That the Na. [...] In December 2015, 195 countries including Australia, under the banner of the United Nations Framework Convention negotiated the “Paris Agreement” which aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to increase the ability to adapt to climate change. [...] Coordination • AGMIN and its Climate Change Task Group to engage with industry on its national action plan as a matter of urgency and commit to publicly reporting on progress; • The Commonwealth must ensure that the complexity of agriculture’s climate change interaction are considered in the development of all relevant sector plans especially the Agriculture and Land sector plan; and • That the Na.
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