© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Fresh compost made from food scraps and green waste is loaded onto a truck before being sent to a farm at Recology Blossom Valley Organics North near Vernalis, California, U.S., November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Brittany Hosea-Small/File Photo
By Leah Douglas
(Reuters) – Feeding the world is a big job, and the effort produces billions of mets of emissions of greenhouse gases each year – around a third of the global total.
Despite the fact that food is a big climate problem, very little has been done so far to address it.
This year’s U.N. climate conference in Dubai will be the first to dedicate a whole day to the question of how to reduce food’s climate impact, and advocacy groups are pressing countries to come up with real solutions.
Here are some details about the sources of emissions from the food and agriculture sector:
HOW MUCH DOES OUR FOOD EMIT?
Global food systems accounted for 17 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent or 31% of human-made greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
That includes emissions related to farming and land use, producing crops and livestock,…
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