Reduce emissions
Reduce emissions, increase efficiency: A checklist guide
This guide provides a self-assessment tool to identify areas for action within primary production businesses. It focuses on areas that can provide efficiency gains. Actions can be implemented immediately (now - 1 yr), in the medium term (2-3 yrs) or the longer term (5 yrs). To use this guide:
- Work through the self-assessment tool.
- Identify actions which you can implement.
- Identify when the action will occur: short, medium or long term.
- Complete your plan by listing the actions you plan to implement on the final page.
Supporting resources
Carbon calculators
Calculate your current emission level and identify the main sources using an industry-specific carbon calculator:
- PICCC - Greenhouse Accounting Framework tools - multiple industries - Excel
- Environmental Accounting Program - multiple industries - online
- AWRI - wine - Excel
- Dairy Australia - dairy - Excel
- MLA - livestock - online
Emission level targets table - Industry averages
| Produce | Emission level targets |
|---|---|
| Chicken meat | 3 to 5 kg CO2e/kg LWT |
| Pigs | 4 to 7 kg CO2e/kg LWT |
| Wheat | 0.1 to 0.5 kg CO2e/kg grain |
| Canola | 0.5 to 0.75 kg CO2e/kg grain |
| Dairy | 8 to 21 t CO2e/t MS |
| Beef | 11 to 18 kg CO2e/kg LWT |
| Sheep | 6 to 8 kg CO2e/kg LWT |
| Wool | 21 to 28 kg CO2e/kg wool |
| Wine | 0.6 to 4.68 kg CO2e/L |
(Wiedeman et al. (2015); Browne et al. (2011); Alvarez-Hess et al. (2019); Abbott et al. (2016); Amienyo et al. (2014))