Will a €150m project to turn cow manure into biogas help the Netherlands cut agricultural emissions?

About 10% of the Netherlands’ greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mostly methane as a result of the dairy industry, and the country’s livestock produces 74m tonnes of manure a year. Masterminded by FrieslandCampina, the country’s largest dairy collective which buys milk from 13,500 of the Netherlands’ 17,000 dairy farmers, the project has established an initial target of getting 1,000 large farms across the country to make power from cow manure within four years.