PRESSURE GROWS ON GOVERNMENTS TO INTEGRATE LIVESTOCK WITHIN PARIS AGREEMENT-RELATED CLIMATE POLICIES
January 1st, 2018
GOVERNMENTS are starting to develop anti-methane emission policies that could impact the meat and livestock industry as part of their response to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change. World leaders who participated at November’s COP23 (conference of parties) climate summit in Bonn, Germany, were advised by a key investor group to reduce livestock methane if greenhouse gas emissions are to be tackled effectively.
The Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative released a paper during the event that warned some kind of “livestock levy” ...
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