Reinhart: Roughly 90% of enteric methane emissions come from grazing livestock
Erica Reinhart · Why methane matters · Dec 22, 2022 · at 37:03
Erica Reinhart of Spark Climate Solutions discusses why daily feed additives fail to address the bulk of global cattle emissions.
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“It's something like two to 10% of enteric methane emissions that are most likely kind of in a actively fed scenario, and the other ninety-ish percent are not,”
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