Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 22; no. 12; pp. 3859 - 3864
• Main Authors: Wollenberg, Eva, Richards, Meryl, Smith, Pete, Havlík, Petr, Obersteiner, Michael, Tubiello, Francesco N., Herold, Martin, Gerber, Pierre, Carter, Sarah, Reisinger, Andrew, van Vuuren, Detlef P., Dickie, Amy, Neufeldt, Henry, Sander, Björn O., Wassmann, Reiner, Sommer, Rolf, Amonette, James E., Falcucci, Alessandra, Herrero, Mario, Opio, Carolyn, Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Maria, Stehfest, Elke, Westhoek, Henk, Ortiz-Monasterio, Ivan, Sapkota, Tek, Rufino, Mariana C., Thornton, Philip K., Verchot, Louis, West, Paul C., Soussana, Jean-François, Baedeker, Tobias, Sadler, Marc, Vermeulen, Sonja, Campbell, Bruce M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2016
• Subjects: Agricultural development; Agriculture; Animal Production Systems; Biogeochemistry; carbon; Carbon - analysis; Climate Change; Dierlijke Productiesystemen; Emissions control; Farm buildings; finance; Gases - analysis; Global warming; Greenhouse Effect - legislation & jurisprudence; Greenhouse Effect - prevention & control; greenhouse gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; integrated assessment modeling; International Cooperation; issues and policy; Laboratorium voor Geo-informatiekunde en remote sensing; Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing; Leerstoelgroep Dierlijke productiesystemen; methane; Methane - analysis; Mitigation; Paris Agreement; PE&RC; policy; Public Policy; soil; Soil - chemistry; target; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; agriculture; mitigation; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; integrated assessment modeling; climate change; policy; target

More than 100 countries pledged to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 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 vs. how much is feasible remains poor. We identi...