Tag: Committee on Climate Change (CCC)

• Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Climate change: UK report suggests drastic reduction of sheep and cattle numbers

  

  The number of sheep and cattle in the UK should be reduced by between a fifth and a half to help combat climate change, a report says. The shift is needed, the government’s advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) maintains, because beef and lamb produce most greenhouse gases.