Paris Climate Agreement Cannot Be Met Without Cutting Farm Emissions
UVM researchers find current interventions achieve about only one-third of goal
A team of scientists has calculated, for the first time, the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture must be reduced to meet the new Paris climate agreement’s plan to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
The new analysis estimates that, world-wide, agriculture must reduce non-carbon-dioxide emissions — like nitrous oxide and methane —...
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