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There are effective ways to reduce enteric methane emissions

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Amid the often-distressing news about climate change, some good news: Existing strategies could mitigate livestock methane emissions by enough to help the sector limit its share of global warming to the 1.5°C target by 2030.

In a meta-analysis published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Claudia Arndt, Leader of the Mazingira Centre at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya, and a score of experts from top-level institutes around the world reviewed hundreds of peer-reviewed studies for strategies designed to decrease product-based and absolute enteric methane emissions by ruminants.

Full adoption of existing mitigation strategies can help meet livestock methane reduction targets by 2030 | International Livestock Research Institute (ilri.org)

Created by Annabel Slater a.slater@cgiar.org 2022.