World's first carbon tax on agriculture costs farmers £75 per cow over their burps and manure

Dairy farmers in Denmark will have to pay an annual tax of 672 krone per cow due to the planet-heating emissions they generate.

A share of this pollution comes from methane, a potent planet-warming gas produced by cows and some other animals through their burps and manure. The agreement also entails investing 40 billion krone in measures including reforestation and establishing wetlands in a bid to meet the nation's climate goals.

“We recognise that there is a climate problem… But we do not believe that this agreement will solve the problems, because it will put a spoke in the wheel of agriculture’s green investments." Kristian Hundeboll, the CEO of DLG Group, one of Europe’s biggest agricultural businesses and a cooperative owned by 25,000 Danish farmers, said it was “crucial for competitiveness” for the tax to be “anchored” in European Union legislation.

In particular, livestock farming has a big impact, accounting for around 12% of global emissions in 2015, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation

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