Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2°C target
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Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2°C target
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
Richards, Meryl B. Smith, Pete Havlík, Petr Obersteiner, Michael Tubiello, F.N. Herold, Martin Gerber, Pierre J. Carter, S. Reisinger, Andy Vuuren, D. van Dickie, A Neufeldt, Henry Sander, Björn Ole Wassmann, Reiner Sommer, Rolf Amonette, JE Falcucci, A. Herrero, Mario T. Opio, C. Román Cuesta, Rosa María Stehfest, Elke Westhoek, H.J. Ortiz Monasterio, Ivan Sapkota, Tek Bahadur Rufino, Mariana C. Thornton, Philip K. Verchot, Louis V. West, Paul C. Soussana, J.F. Baedeker, Tobias Sadler, M Vermeulen, Sonja J. Campbell, Bruce M. |
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climate change
agriculture food security |
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More than 100 countries pledged to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Richards et al., 2015a) in the 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Yet technical information about how much mitigation is needed in the sector versus how much is feasible remains poor. We identify a preliminary global target for reducing emissions from agriculture of ~1 GtCO2e/yr by 2030 to limit warming in 2100 to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Yet plausible agricultural development pathways with mitigation co-benefits deliver only 21 to 40% of needed mitigation. The target indicates that more transformative technical and policy options will be needed, such as methane inhibitors and finance for new practices. A more comprehensive target for the 2°C limit should be developed to include soil carbon and agriculture-related mitigation options. Excluding agricultural emissions from mitigation targets and plans will increase the cost of mitigation in other sectors or reduce the feasibility of meeting the 2°C limit.
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2016-12
2016-05-17T13:08:53Z 2016-05-17T13:08:53Z |
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Journal Article
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Wollenberg E, Richards M, Smith P, Havlík P, Obersteiner M, Tubiello FN, Herold M, Gerber P, Carter S, Reisinger A, van Vuuren D, Dickie A, Neufeldt H, Sander BO, Wassman R, Sommer R, Amonette JE, Falcucci A, Herrero M, Opio C, Roman-Cuesta R, Stehfest E, Westhoek H, Ortiz-Monasterio I, Sapkota T, Rufino MC, Thornton PK, Verchot L, West PC, Soussana JF, Baedeker T, Sadler M, Vermeulen S, Campbell BM. 2016. Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2°C target. Global Change Biology. 22(12):3859-3864.
1354-1013 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/73438 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13340 Regenerating Degraded Agricultural Ecosystems |
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en
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CC-BY-4.0
Open Access |
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p. 3859-3864
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Wiley
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Global Change Biology
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