TNPSC Thervupettagam

Livestock methane emissions

October 24 , 2023 269 days 329 0
  • About 32 per cent of global anthropogenic methane emissions result from microbial processes that occur during the enteric fermentation of ruminant livestock and manure management systems.
  • Another 8 per cent comes from rice paddies.
  • Methane is a short-lived greenhouse gas (GHG), which has an atmospheric lifetime of around a decade.
  • Another GHC Carbon dioxide, affects the climate for hundreds of years.
  • But methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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