Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has pledged millions of dollars into research to significantly cut methane emissions from cattle using a number of intervention methods, including vaccines.:
Livestock are responsible for producing around one third of all global methane emissions, which continue to warm up the atmosphere at an alarming rate. The multi-billionaire is therefore providing a US$9.4 million grant, via his Bezos Earth Fund, to a collaboration between The Pirbright Institute and the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. The research project will use biotechnology to determine the mechanism by which a vaccine could cut livestock methane emissions by more than 30%.