Costs of transitioning the livestock sector to net-zero emissions under future climates.

ABSTRACT: Land managers are challenged with the need to balance priorities in production, greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement, biodiversity and social license to operate. Here, we develop a transdisciplinary approach for prioritising land use, illustrated by co-designing pathways for transitioning farming systems to net-zero emissions. We show that few interventions enhanced productivity and profitability while reducing GHG emissions. Antimethanogenic feed supplements and planting trees afforded the greatest mitigation, while revenue diversification with wind turbines and adoption of livestock genotypes with enhanced feed-conversion efficiency (FCE) were most conducive to improving profit. Serendipitously, the intervention with the lowest social licence-continuing the status quo and purchasing carbon cre

SUBMITTER: Bilotto F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12019546 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature