Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture | Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

silence7@slrpnk.net · edit-2 5 months ago

Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture | Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 months ago

https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/agricultural-greenhouse-gas-emissions-101/

As indicated in the figure, carbon dioxide emissions accounted for about 7.2 percent of (non-energy-related) agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases in 2021

It’s something, but it’s not what it should’ve been. Farmers have a lot of political sway in this country and I have no doubt that some under-the-table things have happened because that’s the motto of our sitting government.