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OnlinePoker

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Thu Jun 9, 2022, 06:25 PM Jun 2022

Climate change: New Zealand's plan to tax cow and sheep burps [View all]

New Zealand has unveiled a plan to tax sheep and cattle burps in a bid to tackle one of the country's biggest sources of greenhouse gases.

It would make it the first nation to charge farmers for the methane emissions from the animals they keep.

New Zealand is home to just over five million people, along with around 10 million cattle and 26 million sheep.

Almost half the country's total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61741352

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