Reducing livestock emissions worldwide
View Article  London Mayor attacks Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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Boris Johnson, mayor of London, today wrote a scathing and slightly derogatory/sarcastic article in The Telegraph criticising ...   more »
View Article  UK Dairy industry in drive to boost "green" milk

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Dairy UK has launched a major drive to raise the environmental profile of the dairy sector, starting ...   more »
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View Article  Interview: Financing emissions from jets and cows

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(www.mootral.com) - A damning interview with environmental scientist Robert Goodland, formerly of the World Bank, criticising its former employer ...   more »
View Article  mootral link: EPA livestock facts

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(www.mootral.com) - Globally, livestock are the largest source of methane from human-related activities – and in the U.S., the ...   more »
View Article  Report: policy paper on livestock emissions in California
mootral (www.mootral.com) - The livestock industry is a major emitter of ammonia (NH3), which is a precursor of fine particulate ...   more »
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View Article  Not enough research on livestock emissions
mootral (www.mootral.com) - Methanobrievibacter ruminantium is a microbe in big trouble. It has been fingered by scientists as responsible for producing ...   more »
View Article  Australia - taking it easy on livestock emissions
mootral (www.mootral.com) - The Federal Government's top independent climate change adviser is recommending it shouldn't penalise beef and sheep farmers ...   more »
View Article  Eat less meat to reduce global emissions

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(www.mootral.com) - The Guardian published an article today encouraging people to radically change their diet and reduce our meat ...   more »
View Article  Cow is a climate bomb!

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Whether cattle are reared organically or with conventional farming methods, the end effect is bad ...   more »
View Article  Livestock productivity cust carbon emissions

mootral (www.mootral.com) According to  South Dakota State University Extension dairy specialist Alvaro Garcia, along with James Linn, head of ...   more »

View Article  Cow Power! converting livestock emissions into energy
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cow power!

mootral™ (www.mootral.com) Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to ...   more »

View Article  Livestock Industry Creates More Gas than Transportation

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Ask most Americans about what causes global warming, and they’ll point to a coal plant smokestack or a car’s tailpipe. They’re right, of course, but perhaps two other images should be granted similarly iconic status: the front and rear ends of a cow. According to a little-known 2006 United Nations report entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” livestock is a major player in climate change, accounting for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalents). That’s more than the entire transportation system! Unfortunately, this incredibly important revelation has received only limited attention in the media. Click here for full article >>
View Article  Got milk? the dark side of milk emissions
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Got Milk?

mootral™ (www.mootral.com) – Not many people know that a simple glass of milk can have huge environmental ...   more »

View Article  Australia not including livestock emissions in trading scheme

Mootral™ (mootral.com) - Australia's government has decided not to include the agricultural sector in a future national emissions cap-and-trade scheme. As such "The Government does not consider that it is practical at this stage to include agriculture emissions in the trading scheme at commencement." This is despite the fact that agriculture emits 16% of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions.


For more information please visit http://www.climatechange.gov.au/greenpaper/summary/summary-report.html