UN climate change report: land clearing and farming contribute a third of the world's greenhouse gases
- Written by Mark Howden, Director, Climate Change Institute, Australian National University
Farming emits greenhouse gases, but the land can also store them.Johny Goerend/Unsplash, CC BY-SA
We can’t achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without managing emissions from land use, according to a special report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Emissions from land use, largely...