The goal of the tax is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Denmark, which is a large dairy and pork exporter. There are roughly 1,480,000 cows in the Scandinavian country, with each producing 6 ...

Denmark's coalition government agreed this week to tax livestock owners the equivalent of US$96 per head per year from 2030 due to greenhouse gases produced by animal flatulence, Tax Minister ...

Cows, sheep and pigs emit a surprising amount of greenhouse gases, making livestock farming one of the more polluting areas of agriculture. To account for this, Denmark has issued a tax on the ...

In 2015, livestock farming alone contributed around 12% of manmade greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. And in Denmark, a major exporter of dairy ...