Scientists have proposed that 1 Gigatonne of annual emissions reductions from agriculture by 2030 will be necessary to stay within the 2°C limit. Emissions reductions would would need to increase in the longer-term. The figure below shows estimated business-as-usual emissions from agriculture in the top line, and the maximum amount of emissions from agriculture in a 2°C world in the bottom line. The gap - 1 Gigagonne - is the aspirational mitigation target. Learn more: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/MitigationTargetAgriculture

1. To meet the mitigation target, agriculture needs urgent investment in:
Further work is also needed on reducing emissions throughout the food system, including: sequestering soil carbon,
increasing agroforestry and avoiding deforestation, decreasing food loss & waste and shifting dietary patterns.
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www.ccafs.cgiar.org/MitigationTargetAgriculture
Policies and standards that
support more ambitious mitigation
Farmers’ capacity
to use new practices
Promising low-emissions
technical innovations
like
reduced-
methane
cows
through finance, incentives
& technical knowledge
like carbon pricing,
taxes & subsidies
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Richards et al. 2016. https://ccafs.cgiar.org/agricultures-prominence-indcs-data-and-maps
However, known practices could deliver just
21-40% of the needed reduction,
even if implemented fully at scale.
Emissions reductions from agriculture are
not on track to meet the
2°C warming limit.
At the Paris climate conference,
119 countries
committed to mitigation in agriculture,
(but few set quantitative targets).
Reducing emissions from the industrial,
transport and energy sectors will not
be enough: agriculture is necessary
to achieve the 2°C target.
Agriculture will need to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to only
6–8 gigatonnes of CO2
e by 2030 while also increasing production.
*GtCO2
e yr-1
= gigatonne of carbon dioxide equivalent per year
Calculations are for non-CO2
emissions. See article for range of scenarios.
This requires reducing non-CO2
emissions of
1 gigatonne CO2
e per year
by 2030 based on our current trajectory.