Fonterra says its climate footprint is half what an international study reported. Why?
The Institute’s figure of 44 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent is gaining traction overseas, being used in other research papers. The research group used an industry-accepted model to calculate the emissions from Fonterra’s global operations (which include New Zealand, Australia and China), says Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Shefali Sharma. Dairy farms produce a lot of methane, some nitrous oxide and a little carbon dioxide. The researchers converted methane...
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