Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
Denmark introduces a carbon tax on livestock farmers from 2030 to reduce methane emissions. The tax starts at 300 kroner per ton, rising to 750 kroner by 2035, with a 60% income tax deduction. This aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030 and achieve climate neutrality by 2045. The agreement involved government, farmers, industry, and unions, setting a global example.
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Denmark will implement a carbon tax on livestock farmers starting in 2030, becoming the first country to do so. The tax aims to reduce methane emissions from cows, sheep, and pigs, which are significant contributors to global warming. Danish livestock farmers will be taxed 300 kroner ($43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030, increasing to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035. With an income tax deduction of 60%, the actual cost per ton will range from 120 kroner ($17.3) to 300 kroner by 2035. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, traps significantly more heat than carbon dioxide. Denmark's goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030, moving towards climate neutrality by 2045. The tax agreement was reached through a broad-based consensus involving the government, farmers, industry representatives, and unions. The move follows protests by farmers across Europe against climate change regulations. Denmark's initiative sets a precedent for other countries to consider similar measures to combat climate change.
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9 commentsYikes. All this is is a successful attempt by the ruling class to convince the subjugated to give up even more rights and freedoms. “It’s for your own good” on steroids. If you want to see clear proof of this, just note that on the strict numbers, this practice won’t meaningfully move the needle on the climate issue. In fact, will it even move the needle overall? Once you feed the animals better, namely with some seaweed incorporated into cow feed in particular, this total emission from these sources drops by some 80% or more. But of course that solution won’t do, because the entire point of these co2 laws is to have more control over people’s lives rather than to solve problems. If climate change ended tomorrow, these same people would try to push the same laws because the intention is to control the masses and to tax people more to feed the bureaucracy machine.
People should be wary of hall monitors and bureaucrats aiming for “restructuring” of food systems, especially for moral posturing reasons. In history that tends to lead to starvation.
Not that it matters as the people who support these types of broad punitive measures are mostly just virtue seeking idiots who only care about complex issues to the extent it can be used to advertise their own feelings of moral superiority.
I guess it is a way to reduce meat consumption. But I think there are far better places to look, Oil Industry and use of fossils (ie plastics) then Cows and Pigs. But no Government wants to do the hard thing because the pols will loose their jobs in the next election.
I have yet to see a paper that models this. Most of the estimates are purely based on output, which seems disingenuous at best.
Denmark is a tiny country and their emissions are frankly, negligible.
So, just another emotional decision from western politicians.
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