New Zealand’s plan to tax cow and sheep burps

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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, says BBC News.

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.

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  1. NZ cows will all be issued with ‘gas bags, top and bottom’, like the ones we used in World war II…from Trevor.

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