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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Billionaire Bill Gates has invested in an Australian climate technology start-up that plans to reduce the methane emissions of cow burps.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Microsoft co-founder has been outspoken about the environmental impact of meat production.<\/p>\n

Methane is the most common greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2).<\/p>\n

Livestock such as cows, goats and deer produce methane when their stomachs are breaking down hard fibres like grass for digestion.<\/p>\n

This fermentation process creates methane gas which is then mostly belched out again.<\/p>\n

University studies have shown that feeding cows seaweed could significantly cut their methane emissions.<\/p>\n

Perth-based start-up Rumin8 is working on a dietary supplement – synthetically replicated from red seaweed – which stops the creation of the gas.<\/p>\n

It announced in a statement that it had raised $12m (\u00a39.7m) in a funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which Mr Gates founded in 2015.<\/p>\n

The investment firm is also backed by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, and Chinese entrepreneur and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma.<\/p>\n

“We have been very pleased with the reception we have received from climate impact funds around the world,” Rumin8’s managing director David Messina said.<\/p>\n

“There is a genuine desire to fund solutions to enteric methane emissions from livestock and fortunately for Rumin8, they can see the benefits of our technology,” he added.<\/p>\n

Last October, New Zealand proposed taxing the greenhouse gases that farm animals produce from burping and urinating in a bid to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n

The world-first scheme will see farmers paying for agricultural emissions in some form by 2025.<\/p>\n

Almost half the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane.<\/p>\n

In 2019, methane in the atmosphere reached record levels, around two-and-a-half times above what they were in the pre-industrial era.<\/p>\n

What worries scientists is that methane has real muscle when it comes to heating the planet.<\/p>\n

Individual methane molecules have a more powerful warming effect on the atmosphere than single CO2 molecules.<\/p>\n

Over a 100-year period methane is 28 to 34 times as warming as CO2.<\/p>\n

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