Gone with the wind: French scheme targets farting cows
- Published: 13 Feb 2013 at 02.44
- Online news: World
A French cattle feed company on Tuesday unveiled a novel form of carbon credits aimed at incentivising farmers to stop cows from emitting climate-changing farts.
A picture taken on June 9, 2011, shows a cow in a field in Marsac-en-Livradois, central France. A French cattle feed company on Tuesday unveiled a novel form of carbon credits aimed at incentivising farmers to stop cows from emitting climate-changing farts.
Grass-chewing farm animals are an often-overlooked contributor to global warming, as their emissions are of methane, a gas that is two dozen times more efficient than carbon dioxide in trapping solar heat.
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