Mootral

{{Short description|British–Swiss company}} '''Mootral''' is a British–Swiss company that is developing a food supplement to reduce methane emissions from ruminant animals, chiefly cows and sheep, but also goats.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |last1=Satariano |first1=Adam |title=The Business of Burps: Scientists Smell Profit in Cow Emissions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/business/cow-methane-climate-change.html |work=New York Times |date=1 May 2020}}</ref> Methane is a major greenhouse gas.

==Emission trading== Companies using Mootral's feed supplement generate carbon credits that may be used to offset their emissions levels or sold to third parties.<ref name="nyt" /> In December 2019, the Verified Carbon Standard approved Mootral as the first methodology to reduce methane emissions from ruminant livestock.<ref>{{cite news |last1=de Sousa |first1=Agnieszka |last2=Carr |first2=Mathew |title=Burping Cows Get the Green Light to Join Carbon-Offset Market |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/burping-cows-get-the-green-light-to-join-carbon-offset-market |work=Bloomberg |date=6 December 2019}}</ref>

==Publicity== Mootral was one of the five finalists in the FT Climate Change Challenge.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Crooks |first1=Ed |title=The five fighters of climate change |url=https://www.ft.com/content/14fa667c-13e3-11de-9e32-0000779fd2ac |work=Financial Times |date=18 March 2009}}</ref>

Mootral was a finalist in the Shell/BBC/Newsweek World Challenge 2009, a "competition seeking to identify and reward projects and businesses which bring economic, social and environmental benefits to local communities through grassroots solutions."<ref>{{cite web |title=Two UK projects in World Challenge 09 final |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworld/worldstories/pressreleases/2009/07_july/uk_world_challenge_project.shtml |publisher=BBC World News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Emission Control |url=http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/2009-finalists-project02.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002223729/http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/2009-finalists-project02.php |archive-date=2009-10-02 |access-date=2026-05-10 |website=World Challenge 09}}</ref>

Venture capitalist Chris Sacca has invested in Mootral.<ref name="nyt" />

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Category:Climate change and agriculture Category:Emissions reduction Category:Methane