Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation through Agriculture
Agriculture, with its growing contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and
opportunities to mitigate emissions, can help close the gap between existing global
mitigation efforts and those that are needed to keep global warming to between 1.5
°C and 2 °C by the end of the century. Global scale and farm scale analyses are used
to evaluate both the effectiveness of different policy options to reduce agricultural
emissions, and the impact on competitiveness, farm income, food security, and government
finances. In order to contribute to global mitigation efforts, countries will need
to design agricultural policy measures that can navigate these trade-offs within the
context of their national policy priorities and objectives. As most countries have
not yet implemented policies to reduce emissions from agriculture, the analyses provided
here come at an opportune time to inform this policy development.
Published on October 16, 2019