It’s time to change the rhetoric: Farming is part of the answer to net zero emissions

Farming has faced a barrage of criticism recently for its role in climate change.

Choosing organic fertilisers over artificial ones can help reduce emissions.

However, much of the rhetoric has failed to highlight or focus on the huge positive contribution agriculture can have in helping the UK reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Hot on the heels of the Committee on Climate Change’s report, Net Zero — The UK’s contribution to stopping global warming, the government has announced the UK should aim for net zero emissions by 2050.

As part of that goal, it said we should be reducing diet-related emissions by eating less beef, lamb and dairy, and encouraging afforestation of land currently used for farming would help meet these targets.

Read the Medium story by Promar Environment - “It’s time to change the rhetoric: Farming is part of the answer to net zero emissions."

Harvard scientists want to limit how much sunlight reaches Earth's surface in order to curb global warming

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges mankind has faced up until now.

How we'll be able to curtail global warming and its devastating consequences is still very much a hot potato among politicians and scientists alike — and so far, the outcome of all these debates hasn't been particularly fruitful.

How we can curb the devastating effects of climate
change is still hotly debated among politicians and
scientists alike.

However, researchers at Harvard may have come up with a solution that sounds just a little too good to be true.

In conjunction with researchers from MIT and Princeton, the group has suggested slowing down global warming by diminishing the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth's surface.

Read the Business Insider story - “Harvard scientists want to limit how much sunlight reaches Earth's surface in order to curb global warming.”