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Include agriculture in national climate mitigation strategies

 

As other sectors begin to decarbonise, notably energy and transport, agriculture is set to become a leading emitting sector. Policy makers should step up efforts to integrate agriculture into national mitigation strategies. There has been some progress in setting mitigation targets for agriculture but the global level of ambition for the sector falls well short of what is required for it to contribute to limiting the global temperature increases to below 2°C.

At present, only a handful of countries have included mitigation targets for agriculture in their Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Climate Agreement, and most are not legally binding. Clearly, there is a need to step up the global level of policy ambition to align with the agriculture sector’s potential to mitigate climate change.


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Report: Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation through Agriculture, OECD (2019)

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