Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 27418
Cattle: Carbon Capture and Storage
Tabled: 29 January 2025
Answered: 5 February 2025
Question
Adam Dance
Liberal Democrat — Yeovil
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the methodology used to calculate the carbon sequestration generated by cattle.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerDefra has evaluated the methodologies used in on-farm carbon calculators to assess greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration on-farm. This found that methodologies differed between these calculators. For example, there was no consistent, agreed ap...
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