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. November 27, 2023
Cows in agriculture
It is critical that we move to more sustainable food production, but in a way that minimises wider trade-offs.

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.