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<blockquote data-quote="white_stuffed" data-source="post: 7662976" data-attributes="member: 1751"><p>This is a challenging read:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tabledebates.org/building-blocks/methane-and-sustainability-ruminant-livestock#MSBB4[/URL]</p><p></p><p>One of the biggest problems for ruminant agriculture (perhaps why the GWP* message is continuing to fall on deaf ears) is because they’re targeting methane reduction in order to <strong>buy time</strong> for the CO2 emissions to fall:</p><p></p><p><em>If we don't meet the agricultural methane emissions reduction targets set out in the IPCC 1.5 degrees report, global CO2 emissions will have to decline even faster to meet the temperature objective. Significantly reducing methane emissions from livestock would increase the amount of total CO2 that can be emitted while remaining under these temperature limits, and so may make them more attainable. Reducing agricultural methane emissions by more than target could potentially delay – but not avoid – the date of net-zero CO2 emissions by a few more years. Integrated economic-climate models show how <strong>eliminating ruminant methane could delay the rate at which a complete shift to clean energy is required, and so make this transition cheaper</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p><em><strong>These are not issues that are introduced or solved through GHG emission metrics</strong>; questions of how, how fast and by whom different emission reductions are made are embedded in broader moral or political considerations.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="white_stuffed, post: 7662976, member: 1751"] This is a challenging read: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tabledebates.org/building-blocks/methane-and-sustainability-ruminant-livestock#MSBB4[/URL] One of the biggest problems for ruminant agriculture (perhaps why the GWP* message is continuing to fall on deaf ears) is because they’re targeting methane reduction in order to [B]buy time[/B] for the CO2 emissions to fall: [I]If we don't meet the agricultural methane emissions reduction targets set out in the IPCC 1.5 degrees report, global CO2 emissions will have to decline even faster to meet the temperature objective. Significantly reducing methane emissions from livestock would increase the amount of total CO2 that can be emitted while remaining under these temperature limits, and so may make them more attainable. Reducing agricultural methane emissions by more than target could potentially delay – but not avoid – the date of net-zero CO2 emissions by a few more years. Integrated economic-climate models show how [B]eliminating ruminant methane could delay the rate at which a complete shift to clean energy is required, and so make this transition cheaper[/B][/I][B].[/B] [I][B]These are not issues that are introduced or solved through GHG emission metrics[/B]; questions of how, how fast and by whom different emission reductions are made are embedded in broader moral or political considerations.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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