Livestock Production And Greenhouse Gas Emissions

EDM number 804 in 2007-08, proposed by Norman Baker on 28/01/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture, Agriculture and environment, Climate change, Energy conservation, Environmental protection, Food and Pollution.

That this House notes that a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations shows that livestock production is responsible for 18 per cent. of human-induced global greenhouse gas emissions which is a higher share than transport; further notes that the UK's consumption of meat and dairy products accounts for some 8 per cent. of UK consumption related greenhouse gases; further notes that the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the livestock sector are mainly in the form not of carbon dioxide but of methane and nitrous oxide; believes that the failure of the Climate Change Bill to set reduction targets for methane and nitrous oxide will make it difficult to address the emission of greenhouse gases by the livestock sector; and urges the Government to bring forward amendments to the Climate Change Bill to include reduction targets for methane and nitrous oxide.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.