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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

To achieve this the IPCC calculates that annual global emissions of CO2 must be reduced to 45 per cent below their 2010 level by 2030, which was roughly 1.9 To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year). Nature is no longer on our side. The choice is ours.