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Denmark imposes world's first carbon tax on flatulent farm animals
- Denmark will tax livestock farmers for greenhouse gases emitted by cows, sheep, and pigs starting in 2030, becoming the first country to target this major source of methane emissions.
- The European country’s goal is to reduce Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030.
- From 2030, livestock farmers will be taxed $43 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent, increasing to $108 by 2035.
Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country in the world to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming.
The aim is to reduce Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030, said Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus.
As of 2030, Danish livestock farmers will be taxed $43 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030. The tax will increase to $108 by 2035. However, because of an income tax deduction of 60%, the actual cost per ton will start at $17.3 and increase to $28 by 2035.
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Although carbon dioxide typically gets more attention for its role in climate change, methane traps about 87 times more heat on a 20-year timescale, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Cows graze in a field in Luncavita, Romania, on May 21, 2019. Denmark will impose cattle farmers with a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, claiming it will be the first country to do so, in a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from each of their cows. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Levels of methane, which is emitted from sources including landfills, oil and natural gas systems and livestock, have increased particularly quickly since 2020. Livestock accounts for about 32% of human-caused methane emissions, says the U.N. Environment Program.
«We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,» Bruus said, adding Denmark «will be the first country in the world to introduce a real CO2 tax on agriculture» and hoped other countries would follow suit.
New Zealand had passed a similar law due to take effect in 2025. However, the legislation was removed from the statute book on Wednesday after hefty criticism from farmers and a change of government at the 2023 election from a center-left ruling bloc to a center-right one. New Zealand said it would exclude agriculture from its emissions trading scheme in favor of exploring other ways to reduce methane.
In Denmark, the deal was reached late Monday between the center-right government and representatives of farmers, the industry, unions, among others, and presented Tuesday.
Denmark’s move comes after months of protests by farmers across Europe against climate change mitigation measures and regulations that they say are driving them to bankruptcy.
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The Danish Society for Nature Conservation, the largest nature conservation and environmental organization in Denmark, described the tax agreement as «a historic compromise.»
«We have succeeded in landing a compromise on a CO2 tax, which lays the groundwork for a restructured food industry -– also on the other side of 2030,» its head Maria Reumert Gjerding said after the talks in which they took part.
A typical Danish cow produces 6.6 tons of CO2 equivalent per year. Denmark, which is a large dairy and pork exporter, will also tax pigs, although cows produce far higher emissions than pigs.
The tax is to be approved in the 179-seat Folketing, or parliament, but the bill is expected to pass after the broad-based consensus.
According to Statistic Denmark, there were as of June 30, 2022, 1,484,377 cows in the Scandinavian country, a slight drop compared to the previous year.
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Israeli Minister touts Marine Le Pen as 'excellent' option for French president: 'with 10 exclamation marks'
An Israeli minister has endorsed Marine Le Pen for French president, saying she would make an «excellent» leader for the country as her right-wing party seeks significant gains in the current election.
«It is excellent for Israel that she will be the president of France, with 10 exclamation marks,» Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said Tuesday, later indicating that his view may be shared by other members of Israel’s leadership.
«I think I and Netanyahu are of the same opinion,» he said when asked whether the Israeli prime minister shared his view, according to The Times of Israel. The outlet stressed that it remains unclear what had prompted Chikli to discuss Le Pen.
Le Pen’s National Rally outperformed expectations in the European parliamentary elections, trouncing French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party and prompting him to call a snap election as he felt it created tension in the country if the electorate no longer believed in his party and their policies.
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Israel Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks during The Israeli American Council (IAC) 8th Annual National Summit on January 19, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (Shahar Azran/Getty Images)
The gamble has thus far played into National Rally’s hands, and it has continued to perform well in the domestic election, just as it did in the European elections.
Le Pen has unsuccessfully run for president three times – in 2012, 2017 and 2022, improving her rank and share of the vote each time during that decade. Her most recent run saw her win 41.5% of the vote against Macron.
Some speculate that the cultural issues at the heart of the election will propel National Rally – and potentially, in the 2027 presidential election, Le Pen – to control of the country. Immigration has proven a strong issue for right-wing parties across Europe, as well as the pushback those parties have shown to recent antisemitic protests and attacks.
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French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party’s leader and member of parliament Marine Le Pen speaks to the press at the party’s headquarters after the first results in the second round of the French regional elections in Nanterre on June 27, 2021. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)
Serge Klarsfeld, a renowned Nazi hunter, last week announced that he would throw his weight behind National Rally, telling French outlet LCI that if choosing between «an antisemitic party and a pro-Jewish party, I would vote for a pro-Jewish party,» referring to National Rally, according to Le Monde.
Antisemitism has taken sharp focus in the election after the alleged gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl that many have cast as a hate crime. Two adolescent boys arrested in a Paris suburb were hit with preliminary charges in relation to the crime, with prosecutors alleging that the rape had been religiously motivated, ABC News reported.
Rabbi Moshe Sebbag of the Grande Synagogue in Paris said that the election has indicated to him that French Jews have «no future» in France, telling The Jerusalem Post that he urges «everyone who is young to go to Israel or a more secure country.»
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Nazi hunters Serge Klarsfeld, left, and Beate Klarsfeld arrive to attend a national tribute at the Pantheon to late Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and her late husband, Antoine Veil, in Paris on July 1, 2018. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
Sebbeg argued that even if the far-right National Rally has voiced support for Israel’s defense against Hamas following the Oct. 7 attack, the party’s roots come from a place of antisemitism that continues to trouble him.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen has repeatedly been convicted of antisemitic hate speech and made statements downplaying the Holocaust, according to The Guardian, which prompted Marine Le Pen to distance herself and the party from its founder – her father.
«Many Ashkenazi Jewish families here since before World War II couldn’t think to vote for National Rally, yet the Left has been antisemitic in recent times,» said Sebbag. «The Jews are in the middle, because they don’t know who hates them more.»
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