{"id":28828,"date":"2016-02-19T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T11:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=28828"},"modified":"2016-02-24T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:17:46","slug":"uruguay-pushes-100-renewables-just-dont-mention-the-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/02\/19\/uruguay-pushes-100-renewables-just-dont-mention-the-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay pushes 100% renewables, just don\u2019t mention the cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>South America\u2019s clean energy poster child is skewering its\u00a0fossil fuel use, but\u00a0reducing emissions from its meat industry\u00a0is tough<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28829\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28829\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay.jpg\" alt=\"A gaucho herds cattle in Rocha, Uruguay (Flickr\/ Eduardo Fonseca Arraes) \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-112x63.jpg 112w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gaucho herds cattle in Rocha, Uruguay. Beef is the country&#8217;s top export (Flickr\/ Eduardo Fonseca Arraes)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_Pashley?lang=en-gb\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Pashley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Uruguay government official Ramon Mendez has paraded arrays of wind turbines to visiting\u00a0trade missions in his time directing the country&#8217;s\u00a0energy policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cubans, Chileans, and Mongolians have swooned\u00a0over the country&#8217;s shift away from fossil fuel dependency.\u00a0A\u00a0trip\u00a0to\u00a0slowly-emerging Myanmar is next.<\/p>\n<p>The attention is deserved. For Uruguay \u2013 better known for its legalisation of marijuana and folksy former president Jose Mujica \u2013 now gets 95% of its electricity from renewable sources.<\/p>\n<p>A decade earlier, tankers shipping oil and coal sourced its growing power needs. With limited resources and\u00a0its rivers dammed for hydroplants, a\u00a0gas pipeline with Argentina was in the works.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/sumo.ly\/c66E\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> Latin America needs stronger climate pledges<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sumo.ly\/dcfH\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Report:<\/strong> Pragmatic Peru to crisis-hit Venezuela: Latin America at COP21<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then in 2008, the government set about a grand overhaul of policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to increase our energy sovereignty, not for ideological reasons, but because it\u2019s crucial for a small country like Uruguay to be as independent as possible,\u201d says Mendez, speaking\u00a0from Montevideo.<\/p>\n<p>An unmistakeable signal from government and a streak of strong economic growth shored up investor confidence. Imports of turbine blades and photovoltaic panels followed.<\/p>\n<p>Renewables now make up 55% of its total energy mix, he says. An 88% cut in carbon emissions by 2017 compared with the 2005-2009\u00a0average\u00a0was the country&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.unfccc.int\/submissions\/INDC\/Published%20Documents\/Uruguay\/1\/INDC%20Uruguay%20(English-unofficial%20translation).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">contribution<\/a> to last year&#8217;s Paris climate agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A few natural gas plants remain on\u00a0back-up, when low rainfall shuts down hydro plants\u00a0and the wind drops. \u201cWe cannot control nature,\u201d adds Mendez, its chief negotiator in Paris.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28831\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28831\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28831\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-wind.jpg\" alt=\"(Flickr\/ Gonzalo Viera Azpiroz) Turbines in Sierra de los Caracoles in eastern Uruguay\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-wind.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-wind-112x63.jpg 112w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-wind-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-wind-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/uruguay-wind-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Flickr\/ Gonzalo Viera Azpiroz) Turbines in\u00a0Sierra de los Caracoles in eastern Uruguay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Technology has transformed its power sector, but its impact is muted in agriculture:\u00a0Uruguay is a leading beef producer.<\/p>\n<p>Cows outnumber its 3 million population four-to-one. Reared on its grassy plains, beef makes up 70% of its exports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-30210749\" target=\"_blank\">worth<\/a> $1.5 billion in 2013. Export income made up a quarter of GDP that year, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The country is grappling with the issue. In the Paris pledge, it aimed to cut the methane and nitrous dioxide produced per kilo of beef by a third. Burping cows produce 80% of its methane, while manure accounts for almost two-thirds of NOx.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUruguay cannot mitigate climate change at the expense of food production, but rather work on improving the efficiency of the emissions per product in the sector,\u201d its UN submission read.<\/p>\n<p>But production surged by three-and-a-half times over that decade and isn&#8217;t set to slow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/sumo.ly\/b9NU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Report:<\/strong> Why does the meat industry escape climate scrutiny?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sumo.ly\/bwHv\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Climatarianism:<\/strong> the low carb(on) diet you\u2019ve never heard of<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mendez says hungry consumers in foreign markets should bear some of the burden &#8211; its exports feed ten times its population, he argues.<\/p>\n<p>But experts warn surging levels of meat consumption aren&#8217;t compatible with limiting warming to &#8216;safe levels&#8217; of a 2C temperature rise this century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very clear that considerable growth from the livestock sector in terms of consumption on the global level, even allowing for improvements in production is going to mean you will almost certainly overshoot 2C,&#8221; said\u00a0Antony Froggatt, a researcher at London think tank Chatham House who follows the sector&#8217;s environmental footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding forests\u00a0will offset residual carbon emissions from the power sector, yet the\u00a0developing country can only cut so much, Mendez says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen all the climate change difficulties came 100 years ago, we still had 12 million cows. 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