Tackling climate change through livestock: A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities

  Available online: http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3437e/i3437e.pdf

According to this report, the global livestock sector contributes a significant share to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, but it can also deliver a significant share of the necessary mitigation effort. The authors call for urgent, concerted and collective action from all sector stakeholders to ensure that existing and promising mitigation strategies are implemented. They also highlight a need to reduce the sector’s emissions and its environmental footprint, especially in view of its continuing expansion to ensure food security and feed a growing, richer and more urbanized world population.

Language(s): English

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