Reducing methane emissions could be as simple as breathing

Cows like these may one day wear personal methane-busters. (Image: NZME)

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

A New Zealand startup hopes to zap methane as soon as cattle exhale it, if it can persuade them to wear the technology being developed to do that.Halo Agtech's executive chair Peter Barrowclough said the name 28tozero, which it trades under, was chosen for a reason.“That’s based on the fact that methane is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of a greenhouse gas.”NZ has a target to reduce biogenic methane emissions by 10% below 2017 levels by 2030 and by 24 to 47% below 2017 levels by 2050.“There...

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