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Livestock accounts for 51% of greenhouse gas emissions, says new report

October 22, 2009

In 2006 a report compiled by the UN’s Food and Agriculture arm found that livestock’s greenhouse emissions accounts for 18% of the total, while the global transportation network, a much more targeted culprit, accounts for a lot less at 13%. The report is called Livestock’s Long Shadow and it has been widely quoted ever since [...]

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