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News : THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN CLIMATE CHANGE

30 July 2010

Although contributing 14% of the world’s GHG emissions, agriculture has been largely neglected until now. Michael Coren looks at the future of the agricultural sector and climate change in an editorial for the Katoomba Group. With synergies between mitigation and adaptation within reach, agriculture’s time has finally come.  Although hardly mentioned in the Copenhagen Accord, at least 17 of the 35 countries (including Brazil, Morocco, Papua New Guinea and Ethiopia) have included agriculture in their plans for nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) submitted to the UNFCCC in 2010. These and other first steps are moving us toward a global agreement. Pilot projects are progressing across the developing world. Public funding and private markets are wagering billions of dollars that agriculture will be a major player in future GHG mitigation and adaptation. 

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