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
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.
Food Systems Offer Huge Opportunities to Cut Emissions, Study Finds
Greenhouse Gases From Food Production Are Systematically Underestimated, Researchers Say
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.
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.”
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.
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.”