#sustainability

Sustainability and the food system

1.Introduction Global food production is the single largest human pressure on Earth threatening local ecosystems, driving a sixth mass extinction of species, and impacting the stability of the entire Earth system. Food systems depend heavily on land, water and energy resources and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, related climate change and other environmental …

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Paris Agreement

What is the Paris Agreement?

The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.