This report, published by Greenpeace International was written by researchers from the University of Aberdeen. It puts agriculture's global contribution to GHG emissions at 17 and 32% of all human-induced GHG emissions, including land use changes.
However, it also says that agriculture has a significant climate change mitigation potential, which could change the position of agriculture from the second largest emitter to a much smaller emitter or even a net sink. Mitigation options fall into the following categories:
- Cropland management
- Grazing management
This report, published by Greenpeace International was written by researchers from the University of Aberdeen. It puts agriculture's global contribution to GHG emissions at 17 and 32% of all human-induced GHG emissions, including land use changes.
However, it also says that agriculture has a significant climate change mitigation potential, which could change the position of agriculture from the second largest emitter to a much smaller emitter or even a net sink. Mitigation options fall into the following categories:
- Cropland management
- Grazing management
- Restoration of organic soils
- Water and rice management
- Land use change, agroforestry, set aside etc
- More efficient fertiliser manafacture
- Eating fewer meat and dairy products
See here for the full report.
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