NbSI featured in Financial Times
NbSI researcher John Lynch recently featured in a video for the Financial Times explaining some of the ways agriculture contributes to climate change, and how these might be reduced.
Agriculture is directly responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions – from cows and sheep burping out methane, to nitrous oxide being lost from fertilisers, and energy-use in producing inputs. Furthermore, most human land-use is for food production: land-clearing for agriculture is a significant source of carbon dioxide emissions and is the major cause of biodiversity loss.
The piece also highlighted how agriculture will be – and already is – significantly impacted by climate change. It is therefore critical that we move to more sustainable food production, but in a way that minimises wider trade-offs.
Ongoing work at the NbSI, such as the Agile Initiative Sprint on ‘How do we scale up Nature-based Solutions’ is exploring how we could achieve a genuinely sustainable food system.
Watch the feature here.
