New Zealand wants to tax cow farts to fight global warming
By taxing farmers for greenhouse gas emissions from their livestock, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wants to combat climate change.
In her approach to fighting global warming, New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern is putting an unusual proposal on the table on Tuesday 11 October…to force farmers to pay taxes on greenhouse gas emissions from their livestock.
Agriculture accounts for 50% of the country’s total emissions. condition due to the development of this branch of the economy. The country is home to 10 million cattle and 25 million sheep TF1. However, these animals are ruminants, and it is their digestion that is the source of many methane emissions in the form of flatulence and belching. In all, 91% of the country’s methane emissions come from livestock.
This government project, published on October 11, should be part of the environmental transition of a country that wants to move “towards a future with low emissions” of greenhouse gases. So the goal is to tax farmers who don’t make an effort to reduce their emissions.
The project was poorly received by farmers
On the part of the farmers, this tax was poorly received. The New Zealand government maintains that the money raised will be reinvested in the “agricultural sector” in order to incentivize and reward farmers who take action to reduce their emissions. Le Figaro.
Before the procedure can be fully applied, it must be the subject of a popular consultation. It says it will end on November 18th.
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