Whiff of lucrative work cutting emissions
UK - The hunt is on for ways to reduce flatulence in livestock as a means of slowing global warming.The Defra project is aimed at finding better cow types or high-sugar grass varieties that lead to lower emissions of greenhouse gases - mostly methane. A Defra spokesman said these emissions from livestock accounted for about 7 per cent of the total greenhouse gas emissions for the UK and double that worldwide. Cars are reckoned to account for about 6 per cent.
The Defra strategy will also be homing in on the development of anaerobic digesters to deal with cattle slurry, and produce useable energy, a technology that has developed rapidly in Germany with the aid of substantial subsidies.
Source: The Scotsman