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The state is supporting biogas with billions without ensuring that the facilities are sealed and capture a sufficiently large share of the greenhouse gas methane. A think tank is calling for intervention.

Agriculture’s expensive climate technology emits more of a potent greenhouse gas than expected. It threatens the climate targets.

Biogas plants turn manure and organic waste into green gas, but they are leaky and leave gas behind in the residual biomass. Foto: Christian Falck Wolff
Biogas plants turn manure and organic waste into green gas, but they are leaky and leave gas behind in the residual biomass. Foto: Christian Falck Wolff
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There are significantly larger emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from Denmark’s biogas plants – now Danish agriculture’s most important climate technology – than official reports show. That is the conclusion of a new report from the green think tank Concito.

»Methane emissions from biogas could have major consequences for whether we meet our climate and EU obligations«, says Karsten Capion, a senior analyst at Concito.

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