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Sami Quadri

New Zealand plans to tax cow and sheep burps in bid to combat climate change

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

New Zealand is planning to tax the greenhouse gases that farm animals make from burping and urinating in a bid to combat climate change.

The proposal will make the nation the first in the world to charge farmers for the methane emissions from their animals.

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