Brooke: Efficiency improvements can abate 20% of projected livestock emissions growth
Charles Brooke · Solving the cow burp problem · Jan 26, 2024 · at 20:20
Charles Brooke of Spark Climate Solutions discusses the modeled emissions abatement potential of agricultural operational efficiency with host Shail Khan.
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“The projections are about 20%. We can debate about 20% of the emissions that were expected to increase By this improvement in efficiency. It's actually one of the largest sectors of, ah, marginal abatement that we, that we've modeled.”
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