Livestock and greenhouse gas

Pathway to Climate Neutrality for U.S. Beef and Dairy Cattle Production

New white paper from Frank Mitloehner, Ph.D., Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist and Director UC Davis CLEAR Center and Sara E. Place, Ph.D., Sustainability Director at Elanco Animal Health makes the case for the U.S. beef and dairy cattle sectors to clarify their climate target as climate neutrality, rather than net zero carbon, reaching a point where they no longer contribute to warming. The paper outlines two paths, one for beef, and one for dairy, by which they can reach climate neutrality by 2050 through reducing methane emissions in the coming decades by 18-32 percent. The paper includes links to the data used in the case study and invites readers to try their own iterations of scenarios to reach climate neutrality.