Up-trending farming and landscape disruptions threaten Paris climate agreement goals
UCI-led team tracked global land-use greenhouse gas emissions from 1961 to 2017
January 27, 2021 — One of President Joe Biden’s first post-inauguration acts was to realign the United States with the Paris climate accord, but a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine demonstrates that rising emissions from human land-use will jeopardize the agreement’s goals without substantial changes in agricultural practices.
In a paper published today in Nature, the...
