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Opinion: Can governance reforms like Brazil’s get us to net-zero?

Can governance reforms like Brazil’s get us to net-zero? One narrative present among climate change discussions is that reducing agricultural greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions would compromise food security and the availability of food in the global south. We agree that reducing GHG emissions comes...

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Main Authors: Verchot, Louis V., Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos
Format: Blog Post
Published: CGIAR System Organization 2022
Subjects:
climate change
emission reduction
brazil
greenhouse gas emissions
cambio climático
reducción de emisiones
brasil
emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126003
Summary:Can governance reforms like Brazil’s get us to net-zero? One narrative present among climate change discussions is that reducing agricultural greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions would compromise food security and the availability of food in the global south. We agree that reducing GHG emissions comes with trade-offs, but this does not mean we should abandon efforts toward climate change mitigation in agriculture and forestry, which the Paris Agreement champions.

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