Innovation may cut agriculture’s impact on the environment
Watching industry leaders discuss climate change has become a far more encouraging activity of late.
Ten years ago, it was widely seen as ‘something that someone else should do’.
Much changed after the UN Paris Agreement of 2015. Paris required governments to work to limit the average rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to keep any increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius. To achieve this, global emissions would have to reach ‘net zero’ by 2050.
At the COP 26 summit in Glasgow in 2021 governments will showcase progress made towards decarbonizing their economies.
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