A WHITE paper has been presented to the Federal Government which aims to guide policy away from curbing the use of nitrogen in agriculture in order for Australia to meet its targeted reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Entitled Nitrogen Fertiliser Use and Greenhouse Gases – An Australian Assessment, the paper was written by Dr Robert Norton from Norton Agronomic and The University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland’s Dr Cameron Gourley, and Professor Peter Grace from the QUT Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy.
Recommendations from the paper were developed in collaboration with Fertilizer Australia’s program manager Jeff Kraak, with input from its members.
The paper has been designed to provide information for governments and other policy makers about the current situation with emissions from nitrogen fertilisers in Australia.
For more information, including the White Paper recommendations, you can read the full article at Grain Central.