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Tony Mahar, CEO of the National Farmers Federation, has urged any implementation of the United Nation’s sustainability standards in Australia to be more nuanced and not a blanket approach.
His comments come as organic standards groups push for the global body to create a sustainability standard for livestock producers.
Marg Will, an organic standards lobbyist from Brisbane, Australia, this week told a conference in Europe that there was an “urgent” need for the standards.
“The need for standards around sustainability is great, is urgent,” Will told AAP.
She is critical of Australia’s current system, which she says is simply “green-washing” because it allows emitters in the industry to buy carbon credits to offset their emissions while still producing greenhouse gases....