Sacred cow: coal-hungry India eyes bioenergy to cut carbon
In its endless quest for power to fuel its economic growth, the world's most populous nation -- and third-largest fossil fuel polluter -- has pushed biogas to achieve a much-promised transition to carbon neutrality by 2070.
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Cows kept at a gaushala (cowshed) near the Barsana Biogas Plant, a compressed biogas (CBG) production facility in Barsana, in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh. (AFP)
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BARSANA - Venerated as incarnations of Hindu deities, India's sacred cows are also being touted as agents of energy transition by a government determined to promote biogas production