Meat and dairy industry’s attempt to change how we measure methane emissions would let polluters off the hook

Cow eating, dairy farm, Invercargill. Original public domain image from Flickr
Author
Tom Higgs, Dmitry Yumashev, Mike Berners-Lee
Year
2024
Published in
The Conversation Trust

Lobbyists from major polluting industries were out in force at the recent UN climate summit, COP28. Groups representing the livestock industry, which is responsible for around 32% of global methane emissions, want to increase their use of a new way of measuring these emissions that lets high polluters evade their responsibility to make big emissions cuts.

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