Less hot air about cow emissions

摘要

Influential new figures from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation reveal a more accurate picture of greenhouse gas emissions from dairy products.rnScientists at the FAO found that dairy is responsible for only 2.7% of global man-made emissions. By comparison, aviation in the UK accounts for some 7% of national emissions.rnThe report's findings mean that dairy cows are not the environmental villains that some have claimed, backing up another recent study that found the cows themselves are responsible directly for just 1.2% of UK emissions (A Sustainable Dairy Sector, CE Delft, October 2008).