European Pressphoto AgencyFarmers thrashing paddy along with
cows in a village, on the outskirts of Guwahati, Assam. DOHA,
Qatar – At the United Nations climate talks in Doha this week,
India opposed any move that would require developing countries
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. With an
estimated 485 million cattle, goat, buffalo and sheep, India has
the most livestock in the world, and it is the second largest
producer of methane in the world after China. Methane, a
byproduct of livestock’s digestive process, is the second most
abundant greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide, and it traps 25
times more heat than carbon dioxide does. Agriculture is too
important to India to ask farmers to change their practices now,
Indian representatives said in Doha. Read more… Courtesy of
Betwa SharmaIndia’s chief climate change negotiator, Meera
Mehrishi. DOHA, Qatar – With one week left for the U.N. climate
change talks to conclude, developed and developing countries
remain at odds on how to solve the