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ROME, 9 March 2021 (FAO) The world’s food systems are responsible for more than one-third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to a pioneering new study published in Nature Food.
Spanning from land-use change and agricultural production to packaging and waste management, food system emissions were estimated at 18 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2015. That’s 34 percent of the total, a share that is gradually declining – it was 44 percent in 1990 – even as food systems emissions kept increasing in absolute amounts.
The study, co-authored by Francesco Tubiello, a senior statistician and climate-change specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, offers a treasure trove of data and, at least as importantly, presents a new data base – EDGAR-FOOD – going back to 1990
03/09/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/09/2021 03:38
Food systems account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions
9 March 2021, Rome - The world s food systems are responsible for more than one-third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to a pioneering new study published in Nature Food.
Spanning from land-use change and agricultural production to packaging and waste management, food system emissions were estimated at 18 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2015. That s 34 percent of the total, a share that is gradually declining - it was 44 percent in 1990 - even as food systems emissions kept increasing in absolute amounts.
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