UK farms plan for going 'carbon neutral'

Sep 10, 2019

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Farmers could change the diets of livestock so that they don't belch so much methane

The farm union NFU has launched a plan to make British agriculture carbon neutral in two decades.

Farming creates 10% of the UK’s emissions, and farmers have long been criticised for their failure to tackle their pollution.

But the NFU says the industry can reduce gases almost completely by 2040 - a decade ahead of the government’s overall zero emissions target.

Environmentalists welcomed elements of the plan.

But Friends of the Earth said it was astonis

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