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A question for Ollybloggs Oliver Harrison
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<blockquote data-quote="L P" data-source="post: 9160760" data-attributes="member: 2319"><p>This is often forgotten and jealousy presides. Thank you for coming and responding to some valid and some unfair comments.... the trouble is Ollie, that the average farmer is not being properly supported. One thing I personally cannot get my head round is this greenwashing and accusation over farm emissions. On one hand government figures say we emit 5mt of co2, this gets lumped up to 8-9mt in some figures which includes all the haulage, processing, packaging etc. Never is the counter argument heard that British agriculture sequests 36mt of co2. Apparently we have to be greener by way of sfi or tree planting. How can gfc quantify itself in the pure denial of the carbon sequested? If the figures say we emit 9mt of co2, there is no green initiative in agriculture, there are no offsettable allowances for scope 3 emissions if we are told as an industry that its a net co2 emitter. The whole thing is dead in the water. Be good if someone, maybe you [USER=591]@agricontract[/USER] ,with influence might put their head above the parapet and say the truth that OUR sector is incredibly good at carbon offset just as it is. Yes, we can probably do even better at reducing our emissions and capturing even more carbon... but it has to be accepted by the public, the government, the NFU, the gross emitters that to do so comes at a considerable value in food production and supply. It is not a hand that should be forced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L P, post: 9160760, member: 2319"] This is often forgotten and jealousy presides. Thank you for coming and responding to some valid and some unfair comments.... the trouble is Ollie, that the average farmer is not being properly supported. One thing I personally cannot get my head round is this greenwashing and accusation over farm emissions. On one hand government figures say we emit 5mt of co2, this gets lumped up to 8-9mt in some figures which includes all the haulage, processing, packaging etc. Never is the counter argument heard that British agriculture sequests 36mt of co2. Apparently we have to be greener by way of sfi or tree planting. How can gfc quantify itself in the pure denial of the carbon sequested? If the figures say we emit 9mt of co2, there is no green initiative in agriculture, there are no offsettable allowances for scope 3 emissions if we are told as an industry that its a net co2 emitter. The whole thing is dead in the water. Be good if someone, maybe you [USER=591]@agricontract[/USER] ,with influence might put their head above the parapet and say the truth that OUR sector is incredibly good at carbon offset just as it is. Yes, we can probably do even better at reducing our emissions and capturing even more carbon... but it has to be accepted by the public, the government, the NFU, the gross emitters that to do so comes at a considerable value in food production and supply. It is not a hand that should be forced. [/QUOTE]
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