Understanding Agriculture's Share of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and where they come from
Agriculture, forestry and land use change together account for about one fifth (21.5%) of global GHG emissions. In 2014, they accounted for 10.6 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide equivalents2. Agriculture alone is directly responsible for 5.1 GtCO2-eq, which is about 10% of total global GHG emissions (Danila et al., 2016). While the EU’s agricultural GHG emissions have decreased continuously since the early 1990s (see Figure 1), only a modest further fall is expected up to 2030. Meanwhile, the relative importance of agricultural emissions is expected to rise significantly, with their share of the overall total tripling by 2050
Title of publication: Organic Farming, climate change mitigation and beyond
Editor: IFOAM
Sección/Capítulo: 2
Autor: FiBL: Adrian Muller, Lin Bautze, Matthias Meier and Andreas Gattinger. IFOAM EU: Eric Gall, Effimia Chatzinikolaou, Stephen Meredith, Tonći Ukas and Laura Ullmann
Organización: IFOAM
Año: 2017
Tipo: Parte de un libro
Texto completo disponible en: http://www.ifoam-eu.org/sites/default/files/ifoameu_advocacy_climate_change_report_2016.pdf#page=19
Idioma utilizado para los contenidos: English