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Denmark, the first country in the world to tax cows

2024-07-12 13:00:04Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Denmark, the first country in the world to tax cows

Denmark is about to introduce the world's first carbon tax, applied directly to agriculture and livestock, responsible for a significant portion of the country's carbon emissions.

By the end of the year, in fact, the Copenhagen parliament is expected to approve the new measure which will impose a tax on farmers of 672 Danish kroner, about 100 euros for each cow. The new tax should enter into force in 2030 and rise to 220 euros per animal after five years.

The initiative appears to be a new green response after strong protests in the European agricultural world that took place in recent months and were fueled precisely by the strict environmental restrictions imposed by the EU's agricultural policy.

In the wake of the protests, some of the opposed measures, such as the halving of agrochemicals in agriculture or the directive that equated stables and farms with industrial plants in terms of emissions, were suspended or corrected. Now this new initiative in a country, Denmark, which is among the EU's leading producers and exporters of milk and beef and pork and in which livestock farming is the main source of pollution.

The cow tax being studied in Denmark aims to push the livestock sector to identify systems to reduce emissions also through changes in animal feed. In this field there are more and more experiments that are giving positive results.

The income from the new taxation will also be reinvested in environmental protection. The agreement reached on the levy also includes investing 40 billion kroner – 3.7 billion euros in measures such as reforestation to help Denmark meet its climate goals.

According to the FAO, worldwide livestock is responsible for about 12% of global emissions. But much has already been done to reduce this impact. According to the Italian Sustainable Meat Association, in 1960, 28 kilograms of CO2 were emitted to produce one kilogram of meat in Italy. This amount has dropped to 12 today.


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