LIFE BEEF CARBON: a common framework for quantifying grass and corn based beef farms' carbon footprints.

ABSTRACT: Europe's roadmap to a low-carbon economy aims to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Beef production is an important source of GHG emissions and is expected to increase as the world population grows. LIFE BEEF CARBON is a voluntary European initiative that aims to reduce GHG emissions per unit of beef (carbon footprint) by 15% over a 10-year period on 2172 farms in four large beef-producing countries. Changes in farms beef carbon footprint are normally estimated via simulation modelling, but the methods current models apply differ. Thus, our initial goal was to develop a common modelling framework to estimate beef farms carbon footprint. The framework was developed for a diverse set of Western Europe farms located in Ireland, Spain, Italy and France. Whole far

SUBMITTER: O'Brien D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283046 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature