Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel.
About 22 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture, forestry, and other land use sectors in 2019, the report said, around half of which were from deforestation. Much of the rest came from the combustion of fossil fuels. A lack of institutional and financial support, uncertainty over long-term tradeoffs of how land is managed, and the dispersed nature of private land holdings have hindered implementation so far, it said."Land provides us with so much, for example, food, nature, and our livelihoods," said Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, vice chair of the IPCC working group that authored the report. "These competing demands have to be carefully managed.
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