Signing Biden’s Methane Pledge a Betrayal of Farmers: Opposition Leader

Signing Biden’s Methane Pledge a Betrayal of Farmers: Opposition Leader
A photo taken on Aug. 10, 2022 shows cows waiting to be milked on a dairy farm near Cambridge in New Zealand's Waikato region on Oct. 11, 2022. William West/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Australian Labor government will have betrayed its election promise to support farmers if it considers signing up to the Biden administration’s global pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent, opposition leader Peter Dutton has said.

This follows comments from Agricultural Minister Murray Watt on ABC Radio on Oct. 13 that the federal government was “consulting with farm groups and individual farmers” about what the impacts would be of signing up for the pledge.
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Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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