Can beef farmers reduce their carbon footprint?
Channel: Carbon Brief
Date: 2018-06-04

The beef industry is currently responsible for 6% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, making it as large a polluter as the construction sector.

Eating less meat is one way to cut beef emissions. However, scientists have also started to look at ways that farmers can reduce the carbon footprint of beef before it reaches the plate.

Carbon Brief visited Rothamsted Research – a unique experimental farm in Devon – to find out more about how beef farmers could cut their contribution to climate change.

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