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Report: Merian Ellis
Tasmanian food producers may score relatively well in the new age of carbon awareness, if New Zealand's experience is anything to go by.The climate change debate is pushing all industries to evaluate their carbon footprint, for example, more than 30 businesses on King Island are undertaking a carbon audit as part of a 12 month King Island Sustainable Futures program.Apricot grower and chairman of the Tasmanian Food Industry Council Heather Chong says assessing carbon footprint is likely to be a better path to purse for the state, compared to counting food miles (the distance food travels to market).Heather Chong says food miles have the potential to disadvantage Tasmanian exporters, compared to the state's carbon footprint."New Zealand did an interesting study recently where they could actually prove that goods purchased from New Zealand were actually better, if you looked at the carbon footprint basis, than goods purchased from Europe going into the UK market because New Zealand, like us, uses a lot of renewable energy.So I think if we go down the carbon footprint route, as opposed to the food miles, we stand a much better chance of being able to still continue to sell goods into overseas markets."
In this report: Chairman of the Tasmanian Food Council Heather Chong.
Tasmanian food producers may score relatively well in the new age of carbon awareness, if New Zealand's experience is anything to go by.The climate change debate is pushing all industries to evaluate their carbon footprint, for example, more than 30 businesses on King Island are undertaking a carbon audit as part of a 12 month King Island Sustainable Futures program.Apricot grower and chairman of the Tasmanian Food Industry Council Heather Chong says assessing carbon footprint is likely to be a better path to purse for the state, compared to counting food miles (the distance food travels to market).Heather Chong says food miles have the potential to disadvantage Tasmanian exporters, compared to the state's carbon footprint."New Zealand did an interesting study recently where they could actually prove that goods purchased from New Zealand were actually better, if you looked at the carbon footprint basis, than goods purchased from Europe going into the UK market because New Zealand, like us, uses a lot of renewable energy.So I think if we go down the carbon footprint route, as opposed to the food miles, we stand a much better chance of being able to still continue to sell goods into overseas markets."
In this report: Chairman of the Tasmanian Food Council Heather Chong.
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