New Zealand wants to tax cow burps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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New Zealand – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, New Zealand wants taxes Cow burps and sheep. in the question , methane Contained in the gas expulsion of these animals, which contribute to Global Warming.

The country of Oceania is particularly distinguished by these intensive livestock farms. Cows, numbering 10 million, are twice the population (5 million), according to a report BBC 26 million sheep are also counted there, while agriculture is responsible for nearly half of greenhouse gas emissions, led by methane.

This is why New Zealand It intends to become the first country to tax farmers for their animal gas emissions. This is from the year 2025. The plan also includes financial benefits for the farmers who will use it Food additives to reduce these emissions. British media said he also envisaged methane emissions could be offset by planting trees.

Methane, the second gas that contributes to global warming

While greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture have not yet been factored into the country’s emissions, New Zealand Environment Minister James Shaw now believes that “effective pricing of emissions from agriculture will play a ‘key role’ in goals to reduce atmospheric methane.”

In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a report that “concentrations [de méthane] It wasn’t this high for at least 800,000 yearsHe warned that without limiting the release of this gas into the atmosphere, the fight against climate change would be futile.

Methane, emitted from agriculture, fossil fuels, and organic waste that is not recycled, composted, or converted, is the second greenhouse gas associated with human activity after carbon dioxide (CO2). Its warming effect is about 29 times greater per kilogram of carbon dioxide over a 100-year period, and about 82 times over a 20-year period.

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