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Rules to calculate and to migate the environmental performance of the red meat

The European Livestock and Meat Trades Union (UECBV) has developed a document with the aim of creating a comprehensive and harmonised scientific methodology that can be used by the industry stakeholders to calculate the product environmental footprint of red meat and to determine the impact of the red meat supply chain.

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"CP Foods Coal Free by the year 2022" project

To celebrate World Environment Day on June 5, Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CP Foods) announced “CP Foods Coal Free by the year 2022” project to phasing out coal usage from all its operations in Thailand in response to UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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EU: to facilitate a sustainable use of fertilisers for all farmers

The Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients (FaST) aims to facilitate a sustainable use of fertilisers for all farmers in the EU.

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From greenhouse gas to carbon credits

Edwina Beveridge runs a mixed farming operation in New South Wales, Australia. At any given time, she has some 2,200 pigs on site - which adds up to a lot of methane. By investing in a methane digestion system, she now turns it into energy.

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Insects oil

From the treatment of organical waste they obtain high caloric content compost and also insect maggots, rich in proteins, that can be used for animal feeding or to produce insects oils competing with fish oil and that can be used to obtain Omega’s 3, 6 and 7.

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Sizing up livestock farming’s carbon footprint

A new and interactive tool released by FAO allows farmers, policy makers and scientists to calculate meat, milk and eggs production as well as greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock to make the sector more productive and more climate-friendly.

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Brazil: Assessment of a Low-Carbon Pig Breeding project

A team of pig consultants working in the Low-Carbon Pig Breeding project has been visiting pig farms in Mato Grosso.

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FAO: GLEAM, a comprehensive life cycle assessment of livestock sector’s environmental impacts

The Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model provides detailed data on animal numbers, production and emissions.

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Brazil prioritizes pig production within the low carbon emissions plan

The sustainable pig production with low carbon emissions to the atmosphere will be one of the priorities for the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil in 2015 within the ABC (Low Carbon Emission Agriculture) Plan.

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European Union: new report from Expert Panel on Nitrogen and Food

A new report from the Expert Panel on Nitrogen and Food, of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen, quantifies for the first time how much our food choices affect pollutant nitrogen emissions, climate change and land-use across Europe.

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United Kingdom: pig industry slashes GHG emissions

Two years after the publication of the BPEX Roadmap, the reduction in climate change potential (carbon footprint) already achieved is beyond expectation, far exceeding the overall 2020 target.

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United States: a 50 year comparison of the carbon footprint and resource use of the swine herd

The carbon footprint per pound of dressed carcass produced has been reduced 35% from 3.8 kg/CO2e to 2.5 kg/CO2e.

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Australia's first carbon farming piggery

The CFI project uses the Destruction of Methane Generated from Manure in Piggeries methodology determination, developed in collaboration with the Australian Government.