Engagement

 

Climate Action Down on the Farm:

Food and Climate Nexus opportunities in China and the US

Climate Week NYC 2021

Raising Ambitions for Food systems and climate change by uniting science and policy

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The Food System’s Carbon Footprint Has Been Vastly Underestimated

A new analysis pins one-third of global greenhouse gases on the food system by including long-overlooked factors such as transportation, packaging, and waste.

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Food Systems Offer Huge Opportunities to Cut Emissions, Study Finds

Greenhouse Gases From Food Production Are Systematically Underestimated, Researchers Say

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VIRTUAL EVENT | How the Food System Can Contribute to Global Ambition on Climate Change

Following the April 22 Leaders Summit on Climate, the Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a dialogue on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the food system while promoting public health, rural livelihoods, and other important goals.

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Food system emissions need attention at Biden's climate summit

Philippe Benoit and Kevin Karl, April 2021

“[T]he world won’t meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement without addressing emissions from one surprising and under-discussed source: the food system…. Taking a system approach rather than looking to individual components can unlock novel climate change mitigation opportunities.”

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Climate Week NYC Virtual Event | Food and Climate Change

The Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a discussion on food systems and climate change, with a particular focus on the opportunities to include food system measures in updated NDCs that national governments will submit to the UNFCCC in 2020/21.

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Energy for food produces large amounts of greenhouse gases, we need to tackle this

Philippe Benoit and Antoine Halff, April 2020

“[T]he GHGs attributable to energy for food are substantially higher than emissions from agriculture and land-use changes combined.”