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The methane emissions of 29 large meat and dairy producing companies, including the Italian Cremonini, match those of the top 100 fossil fuel companies:this is what emerges from a new report by the environmentalist NGO Greenpeace Nordic, which denounces how this contribution represents a serious threat to the climate crisis.All of this, according to the organization, could be mitigated by rreducing overproduction and intake of meat and dairy products in middle- and high-income countries – where it is often consumed in excess - thus reducing the average global temperature by 0.12°C by 2050.“For a long time we have observed the unbridled growth of large meat and dairy companies, as if the sector was somehow exempt from responsibility for the climate crisis, but this is not the case at all,” he commented Federica Ferrario, responsible for the Agriculture campaign of Greenpeace Italy. The methane (CH4) it is a simple hydrocarbon and is the main component of natural ga...