David Unwin/Stuff Beef, dairy and sheep farmers need to be encouraged to change their land use to help slash methane emissions, with reductions urgently needed to avoid irreversible tipping points, environmentalist says. Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Environmentalist Guy Salmon says sheep, beef and dairy farmers need to be encouraged to switch land use, with significant reductions in methane emissions needed in the next two decades. Ben Curran/Stuff The agriculture sector is being urged to start slashing methane emissions, but farmers say they need incentives to stay afloat. Agriculture accounted for an estimated 45 per cent of global methane emissions, according to a report by McKinsey & Company last year. About 80 per cent of agricultural methane emissions were from livestock production.

Source: Stuff January 06, 2021 15:56 UTC