US Dairy Industry to Help USDA Meet 25% by 2020 Copenhagen Target
Dec 22nd, 2009 Originally Posted by Susan Kraemer
In a post-Copenhagen move; the US Dairy industry announced today that it is partnering with the US Department of Agriculture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020 by greatly ramping-up the use of anaerobic digesters.
While cows have been with us since at least 2020 BC, now that we are growing towards 9 billion on our one and only planet, obviously dairy farming has far more impact now than it did in our earliest farming days. So the news comes as a very welcome announcement.
Climate change will devastate US farming if our greenhouse gas production is not turned around by 2020.