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Vietnam targets rice as an unlikely contributor to climate change

SCMP, 11 Apr 2023
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Asia’s most important staple food, rice, accounts for 10 per cent of global emissions of methane, a gas that can trap more than 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over the course of two decades. Rice farmers in Vietnam are turning to a programme that could reduce these emissions and earn them some extra cash in the process.

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