How does the new national Carbon Farming Initiative help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
A) It pays the least efficient farmers a grant to leave farming.
B) Farmers and land managers earn carbon credits by increasing stock levels.
C) Farmers and land managers earn carbon credits by switching to GM crops.
D) Farmers earn a 13 per cent feed-in tariff for permitting the construction of wind turbines or industrial-scale solar generation on their land.
E) Farmers and land managers earn carbon credits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and/or storing carbon on the land.
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