Because agriculture causes climate
change, about a quarter of the emissions
are due to agriculture we need to find a
way of producing food efficiently and with
as low a climate impact as possible, and that's the work that we do. We do lots of computer modeling
so we've got lots of people who take
measurements then we use computer models to
work out at the global level what the
impacts on climate and greenhouse gas
emissions are going to be from the
different types of agriculture
and that's obviously very different in different parts of the world and we're able to
quantify that, to aggregate that up and to work out the contributions to total climate
change.
So we've developed a a greenhouse gas calculator which allows farmers and people who are employing farmers
people involved in big agribusinesses, people involved in the food chain to calculate
greenhouse gas emissions from farming. So they are able to ask their farmers or
instruct their farmers to use the
greenhouse gas calculator to calculate
the impact of all the farming and the
different practices that they do and that
helps these big companies to identify
where the hotspots for
greenhouse gas emissions are and to change practices to reduce those significantly.
So, it's being used in many countries, over 40 countries in the world
and tens of thousands of farms through
these different big supply chains on a
whole range of different products to allow them to quantify the climate impact and to reduce it.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change commits us to reducing
the temperature rise on the planet
to about 2 degrees Celsius. It's used by the climate negotiators because we've quantified the
contribution of agriculture to the
climate impact, they're able when they're
deciding on how to set targets for future
climate change to use that information
to work out the contribution that
agriculture will make to those climate change targets in the future.
