{"id":756,"date":"2022-06-18T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2022-06-26T05:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:41:31","slug":"new-zealand-world-first-plan-tax-cow-sheep-cattle-burps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/new-zealand-world-first-plan-tax-cow-sheep-cattle-burps\/","title":{"rendered":"How much for a burp? New Zealand to tax cattle emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/new-zealand-to-tax-cattle-burps.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10898697\/Farmers-face-paying-tax-BURPS-cows-sheep-New-Zealand.html\">Cow and sheep burps may be taxed in a novel plan to cut greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.<\/a><br>\nThe country has a population of five million but about ten million cattle. Under the plan, farmers will have to pay for their gas emissions from 2025. Short-and long-lived farm gas will be priced separately, although a single measure to calculate their volume will be used.<br><br>\n\nBut consumers are likely to be the ones picking up the cost, with warnings the price of meat will rise. A final decision on the scheme is expected in December.<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61747986\">You&#8217;ve heard of the carbon footprint. Now there is a development on the carbon hoofprint.<\/a><br>\nNew Zealand has announced a plan to tax livestock burps in an effort to curb the country&#8217;s gas emissions. There are seven times more cows and sheep than people in New Zealand. And on Wednesday, the country&#8217;s government released a draft plan to have farmers pay for their animals&#8217; emissions, starting in 2025.<br><br> \n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61747986\">Getty Images<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Cow and sheep burps may be taxed in a novel plan to cut greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The country has a population of five million but about ten million cattle. Under the plan, farmers will have to pay for their gas emissions from 2025. Short-and long-lived farm<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/new-zealand-world-first-plan-tax-cow-sheep-cattle-burps\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12],"tags":[22,27,74,24,35,28,23],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-observer","post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-funny-bone","category-us-and-world","tag-economy","tag-figures","tag-government","tag-law","tag-news","tag-places","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}