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Greenhouse Gas Factsheet 6 - Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Published 28 April 10

What you can do to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

What you can do to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Although carbon dioxide emissions only represent a minor proportion of a typical dairy farms greenhouse gas emissions, there are worthwhile savings that can be made which will reduce carbon dioxide emissions and at the same time improve farm profitability. Farm related emissions of carbon dioxide come from animals and plants and from burning fuels, natural gas and indirectly from electricity used on the farm. A further source is from the oxidation of soil.