Adjusting agricultural emissions for trade matters for climate change mitigation.

ABSTRACT: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in food systems is becoming more challenging as food is increasingly consumed away from producer regions, highlighting the need to consider emissions embodied in trade in agricultural emissions accounting. To address this, our study explores recent trends in trade-adjusted agricultural emissions of food items at the global, regional, and national levels. We find that emissions are largely dependent on a country's consumption patterns and their agricultural emission intensities relative to their trading partners'. The absolute differences between the production-based and trade-adjusted emissions accounting approaches are especially apparent for major agricultural exporters and importers and where large shares of emission-intensive items such as ruminant mea

SUBMITTER: Foong A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9184627 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature