Danish farmers are ready to pay the gas tax on cows

Published 2024년 7월 3일

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Denmark is planning to introduce a CO2 tax on agriculture, making cattle, sheep, and pig farmers liable for greenhouse gas emissions from 2030 as part of a strategy to reduce emissions by 70% by 2030. This makes Denmark the first country to impose such a tax globally. The proposal has sparked concerns about social acceptance among farmers, who previously protested against climate change mitigation measures in Western Europe. However, the government and farmers have reached a compromise, with the largest Danish nature conservation/environmental organization viewing the tax agreement as a historic compromise.

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The agricultural government of one of the most efficient agriculture in the world, the Danes, has come up with a radical proposal to limit greenhouse gases: they would make cattle, sheep and pig farmers pay a gas tax from 2030, Euronews reported. The goal – within the framework of a comprehensive program – is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of Northern European countries by 70 percent by 2030. If the parliament there accepts it, Denmark will be the first country in the world to introduce a CO2 tax on agriculture. It is a question of how well the planned tax will be socially accepted, after the farmers of many Western European countries protested against climate change mitigation measures and regulations at the beginning of the year. The official statistics of the European Union do not confirm - in fact, they deny - that agriculture is the biggest emitter. (Incidentally, the EU recently excluded the cattle sector from certain emissions programs - we wrote about this in this ...

Source: Agraragazat