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Rising meat consumption pushes farming past deforestation as global warming driver

2015-01-19 00:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Agriculture has surpassed deforestation and land use change as a driver of greenhouse gas emissions, argues a paper published in Global Change Biology. The research, led by Francesco N. Tubiello of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), looked at emissions from all human sources, breaking them into five categories: buildings, energy, industry, transport and "Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses" or AFOLU. Within that last category, the authors disaggregated crop and livestock...

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