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Denmark Introduces First Carbon Tax on Livestock 🌍 Denmark has announced the world's first carbon tax on livestock, costing farmers $145 per cow. This groundbreaking move aims to reduce livestock emissions and help the country meet its climate goals. The tax, starting in 2030, highlights the increasing market demand for climate-smart agricultural practices. At Viresco Solutions, we specialize in helping farmers navigate regulations like this and explore sustainable solutions, such as using feed additives, to lower emissions. Our expertise will help you stay compliant and competitive. Let's work together to make your agricultural practices more sustainable! #ClimateSmartAg #Sustainability #CarbonTax #VirescoSolutions #GreenFarming #ClimateSmartAgriculture #RegenAg

Livestock farming has a particularly big impact, accounting for around 12% of global emissions in 2015, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. #Denmark will be the first country in the world with a (carbon) tax on agriculture. #livestocktax #Agroeconomy #tax #farming #UN

The nitrogen drama in the Netherlands shows how the industrial model of farming is corrupt and that a recoupling of ecology and economy is required. Industrial agriculture systems are based on linear flows of nutrients where huge quantities of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash is brought in and equally huge quantities of agriculture commodities are sold out of the system, increasingly in global markets. Losses are very high already in crop production, they increase in livestock production and in the consumption stage almost all nitrogen is lost. The losses, in turn, constitute pollution. The fact that excess nitrogen in agriculture also harms ecosystems far away from the actual use also points to yet another flaw in the argument that one can “spare” nature by intensifying farming. https://lnkd.in/dc2PpgBQ

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10% of the UK’s carbon emissions come from agriculture. 40% of these emissions come from methane, which is produced by cattle. So, how do we reduce this? Methane-trapping green sheds could be the answer. These aim to capture 60% - 100% of the methane produced by livestock. Farmer's Weekly provides more details about the benefits of this approach and how it can contribute to Net Zero goals. #NetZeroGoals #MethaneTrapping #AnaerobicDigestion 

Just transition of the livestock sector demands the inclusion of #farmers and #ranchers alongside transformational innovations such as cellular agriculture. Cooperation among various actors and stakeholders is the key, not the competition! COP28 UAE must include this in addition to the #energytransition agenda. Happy to share our article led by the President of Danielle Nierenberg at Food Tank, Lee Recht, PhD, and Didier Toubia at Aleph Farms Federation University Australia Carmine Moscaritolo Josh Warhit Agriculture Dive Priyambada Joshi #livestockfarming #ranchers #sustainableagriculture #cop28uae #cellularagriculture #precisionfermentation #climateaction #justtransition

Livestock farming has a massive carbon footprint. How can more sustainable alternative protein producers compete when the incumbents continue raking in huge state subsidies and have far superior lobbying budgets? We take a look at a new Stanford University sponsored study of farming regulations, subsidies, and lobbying practices in the US and EU. Simona Vallone #sustainablefarming #alternativeprotein https://lnkd.in/eJDqsQgV

World’s first emissions tax on agriculture will require farmers to pay for greenhouse gas pollution from livestock. The revenues are to be pooled in a fund to support the livestock industry’s green transition for at least two years after the tax comes into effect. What are your thoughts? Should Australia follow suit?

EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants! CAP scheme, which pays more to farms that occupy more land, drives ‘perverse outcomes for a food transition’, says study. The subsidy scheme, which pays more to farms that occupy more land, results in “perverse outcomes for a food transition” because livestock take up more space than plants and are inefficiently fed crops that could have gone to people, the researchers found. To produce the same amount of protein, beef requires 20 times more land than nuts and 35 times more than grains. https://lnkd.in/dzC5eQ_a

#Denmark introduces the world’s first #carbon #emissions #tax on #agriculture. The new model is meant to lower emissions from Danish agriculture by taxing #CO2 emissions combined with #deductibles for #investment schemes to increase #sustainable #farming, #planting of new #forests & lowering active farming on #wetlands & #peatland to a certain degree. The new #levies on #livestock starting in 2030 of up to $100 per cow is an attempt to address the issue of the global #food system being a huge contributor to the #climatecrisis, producing around a third of #greenhousegas emissions. According to FAO, livestock farming has a particularly big #impact, accounting for around 12% of global emissions in 2015. A share of this pollution comes from #methane, a potent planet-warming gas produced by #cows, #pigs and other #animals through their burps and #manure. And given that Denmark 🇩🇰 is a large #producer and #exporter of #meat & #dairy products, it sends a signal & will enable Denmark to meet its target of cutting 70 percent of its total emissions by #2030. It is interesting to see #taxation within agricultural production as a #tool. Perhaps the #EU or other countries will follow suit? CNN