The international dairy industry is currently looking at ways of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions on dairy farms, according to representatives at the International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit 2005.

Agricultural impact on climate change was on the environmental agenda at the conference hosted recently by the US and Canada, inspiring the IDF declaration shortly after an informal council of the EU’s Environmental and Agricultural ministers. Climate change was identified as a key priority with agriculture accounting for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions