Great Food Reset: John Kerry targets agriculture as part of climate crusade – Slashing farm emissions critical to fighting climate change, John Kerry says
Kerry: “We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.” … Kerry added that “lives depend” on world leaders and scientists developing the tools necessary to lower agriculture emissions. … I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis.”
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“Mitigating methane is the fastest way to reduce warming in the short term. Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience. We welcome agriculture ministers participating in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge,” said John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
By: Admin – Climate Depot
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry warned Wednesday that the world can’t tackle climate change without first addressing the agriculture sector’s emissions.
Kerry lamented that agriculture production alone creates 33% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that reducing those emissions must be “front and center” in the quest to defeat global warming, during remarks Wednesday morning at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit. The former secretary of state also touted so-called climate smart agriculture as a potential solution.
“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world,” he said during his keynote address. “We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.”
“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way in which we do the things we’ve been doing,” he continued. “With a growing population on the planet – we just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world – emissions from the food system alone are projected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.”
Kerry added that “lives depend” on world leaders and scientists developing the tools necessary to lower agriculture emissions.
Overall, the global food system – which includes land-use change, actual agricultural production, packaging and waste management – generates about 18 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 34% of total worldwide emissions, according to a March 2021 study published in the Nature Food journal.
In the U.S., though, agriculture alone generates about 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, federal data showed.
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“This sector needs innovation now more than ever,” Kerry continued Wednesday. “We’re facing record malnutrition at a time when agriculture, more than any other sector, is suffering from the impacts of the climate crisis. And I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis.”
“We need economic, social and policy innovation in order to scale adaptation of these technical solutions and get them into the hands of folks in the fields of small farmers on a worldwide basis. This is the promise of AIM for Climate Summit.”
Slashing farm emissions critical to fighting climate change, John Kerry says
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) – Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production is essential to the global fight against climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday.
Agriculture generates 10% to 12% of greenhouse gas emissions globally, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The food system as a whole – including packaging, transportation, and waste management – generates a third of global emissions, according to a 2021 study published in the academic journal Nature Food.
“We can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution,” Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said at the AIM for Climate summit in Washington.
He said that without cutting agricultural emissions, the world may not reach its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – which scientists say must be achieved to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
President Joe Biden has pledged the U.S. will reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Rising global temperatures have severe implications for malnutrition and food security worldwide, Kerry said.
“A 2-degree future could result in another 600 million people not getting enough to eat,” said the former U.S. secretary of state. “You can’t continue to warm the planet while also expecting to feed it.”
AIM for Climate is a global initiative, co-led by the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates, to drive investment in farming practices that cut the sector’s emissions.
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Major Livestock Producing Countries Commit to Mitigate Methane in Agriculture
Santiago, Chile – Today, the Global Methane Hub announced that agriculture and environment ministers and ambassadors from 13 countries, including the United States, have issued a commitment to reduce methane emissions in agriculture. Last month, the Global Methane Hub collaborated with the Ministries of Agriculture of Chile and Spain to convene the first-ever global ministerial on agricultural practices to reduce methane emissions.
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“Mitigating methane is the fastest way to reduce warming in the short term. Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience. We welcome agriculture ministers participating in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge,” said John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
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“A 2-degree future could result in another 600 million people not getting enough to eat,” said the former U.S. secretary of state. “You can’t continue to warm the planet while also expecting to feed it.”
Warming the planet will extend growing seasons, and in some places allow for multiple harvests. Why doesn’t he see that?
“We’re facing record malnutrition at a time when agriculture, more than any other sector, is suffering from the impacts of the climate crisis. And I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis.”
No, we’re facing record malnutrition because the “brilliant” government leaders who think they know so much shut down the global economy for essentially 2 years and it still hasn’t recovered.
“It is clear that the IEA NZE does not, by the scenario authors’ own assessment, meet the level of likelihood required to be considered in our financial statements,” Exxon said in a response filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
“It is highly unlikely that society would accept the degradation in global standard of living required to permanently achieve a scenario like the IEA NZE,” Exxon said in dismissing the proposal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/exxon-crushes-progressive-dreams-net-zero-has-chance-2050-alternative-collapse-global
John Kerry is even dumber than I thought, I didn’t think that was possible.
I have to take issue with this continuous attack on agricultural methane emissions.
I made submissions in person at a select committee hearing in New Zealand on a proposed ZERO Carbon Act of Parliament.
I showed graphs of world atmosphere methane emissions which showed that between 1999 and 2008 methane emissions were stable with no increase for ten years .
Enteric emissions from farmed livestock were of no problem and neither was any other source of methane emissions such as coal mining.
They took no notice of the data that I showed them and I was asked to sum up what I had presented to them .
I looked them in their eyes and told them that history would judge them .
How could so many people come to believe that enteric methane could ever be a danger to the world .
All fodder that farmed cattle ,sheep and goats consume has absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere .
The very small amount of methane expelled during digestion breaks down in 10 years into water vapour and CO2 in the upper atmosphere .
The process is a closed cycle , not one additional atom or molecule containing carbon ‘CO2 or CH4’ is added to the atmosphere .
The fodder that is eaten contains a lot of cellulose which is indigestible to humans but farmed animals consume it and produce nutritious food to feed the world ,Milk, beef ,lamb ,venison and goat meat.
Also how much fossil fuel would be required to replace all the leather and woollen goods ?
The biggest source of methane on the planet is Kerry himself, as he is constantly talking out his ass.
Defer to the Ukrainians about food production during a crisis, not John Idiot Kerry.
“how dare you pissants visit martha’s vineyard and bora bora!”
The lies go on and on and on, since there is NO climate crisis at all heck most areas of the world climate haven’t changed at all.
This is what we get when voters send stupid people into power then the rest of us suffer from it.
Biden himself will achieve zero emissions long before 2050. Kerry and the rest of these idiotic world “leaders” should also join Biden very soon. They need to go as they are a clear and present danger to the rest of humanity.
Perhaps it could be arranged for Kerry to be removed from any access to anything produced by farmers!
There is no reason to think a US right to farm movement like the BoerBurgerBeweging, BBB can’t happen in the US if political aggression is instigated against them from the crazy climate crisis people on the left. Families still own 1/2 of American Farms.
Story tip:
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/the-carbon-dioxide-scam/
The above link leads to an excellent article by Leon Puissegur in the Washington Standard, in which he presents a graph of the use of nitrogen fertilizers and relative yields of important crops compared to 1866 levels.
According to his graph, the world’s use of nitrogen fertilizers is about 12 teragrams per year, while corn yields are about 7 times 1866 levels, and wheat yields are about 4 times 1866 levels.
A teragram is a trillion grams, or one million metric tonnes. It is true that fossil fuels need to be burned to produce fertilizer, which emits CO2, but even if it took 10 tons of CO2 to produce one ton of fertilizer, this would represent an emission of 120 million tonnes per year of CO2.
World anthropogenic CO2 emissions are about 35 billion, or 35,000 million tonnes per year, so that the CO2 from producing fertilizer would only represent 0.34% of the total CO2 emissions. If they’re trying to avoid 1.5 C of “global warming”, the fertilizer would account for 0.005 C.
So all the governmental pressure to cut the use of fertilizer in some countries could, at most, reduce CO2 emissions by less than 1%, but could reduce wheat production by 75%.
Back during the French revolution, people complained about not having bread to eat, and Queen Marie Antoinette replied, “Let them eat brioche”. What some European governments are doing is even worse, since wheat is still required to make brioche. What do they propose that people eat, just to make the world 0.005 C cooler 100 years from now?
They seem to be going on about some of the nitrates and nitrites in the soil breaking down to N2O as well.
Obama’s Igor..
We need to get rid of this guy, he is going to kill us all.