{"id":41147,"date":"2020-01-23T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=41147"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:11:10","slug":"uk-must-cut-land-use-emissions-two-thirds-meet-2050-goal-advisers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/01\/23\/uk-must-cut-land-use-emissions-two-thirds-meet-2050-goal-advisers-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"UK must cut land use emissions by two thirds to meet 2050 goal, advisers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK needs to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use by two thirds to deliver on its economy-wide pledge for carbon neutrality by 2050, government advisers have warned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a report published on Thursday, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the UK government\u2019s official climate adviser, has called for rapid and major shifts to farming practices, agro-forestry and consumer behaviour to decarbonise the UK\u2019s land sector.<\/p>\n<p>Emissions from land use have risen since the 1990s to represent 12% of the UK\u2019s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. The CCC outlined what it would take for the UK to reduce emissions from land use by 64% by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>The CCC has previously warned that achieving carbon neutrality in the UK would need to involve all sectors of the economy but that not every sector would individually need to achieve net zero emissions. Instead, negative emissions technologies, such as carbon capture and storage, could be used to offset remaining emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Under the CCC&#8217;s latest recommendations, a fifth of all agricultural land needs to be used to suck carbon from the atmosphere, by planting trees, restoring peatlands and soils and growing bioenergy crops with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).\u00a0Growing timber and bioenergy crops would also generate further emissions cuts in other sectors of the economy when used with carbon capture and storage.<\/p>\n<p>The advisers said this would enable the use of land to reduce carbon emissions while also balancing other priorities for land use, such as food production and flood protection.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/01\/20\/uk-to-stop-funding-coal-abroad-but-will-help-africa-with-oil-gas-johnson\/\"><strong>UK<\/strong> to stop funding coal abroad but will help Africa with oil, gas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among recommendations, the report urged a cut in consumption of carbon-intensive food such as beef, lamb and dairy by at least 20% per person and a reduction in food waste by 20% by 2050. Such changes would help reduce methane emissions from livestock and release land for tree planting and growing bioenergy crops, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>This dietary change would imply reducing cattle and sheep numbers by 10% compared with 2017 levels by mid-century \u2013 less than the 20% decline experienced in the UK in the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes days before the UK\u2019s first climate citizen assembly is due to gather on Saturday to thrash out solutions to achieve the net zero emissions goal by 2050. The UK is also in the midst of reviewing its agricultural policies as its prepares to pull out of the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as part of Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the UK was the first major economy in the world to set a carbon neutrality goal in law. Much of the country\u2019s credibility as host to this year\u2019s critical UN climate talks in Glasgow in November lies on the ability of Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s Conservative government to come up with a concrete plan to achieve its 2050 target.<\/p>\n<p>CCC chairman Lord Deben said the report was one of \u201cthe most important\u201d pieces of work produced by the committee. \u201cChanges to land use are absolutely essential\u201d for the UK to meet its climate goal, he said, citing the critical role of farmers and land-managers in delivering the changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are major changes and cannot be delivered in the normal course of business,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/08\/08\/ipcc-urgent-action-needed-tackle-hunger-alongside-climate-crisis\/\"><strong>IPCC:<\/strong> Urgent action needed to tackle hunger alongside climate crisis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Implementation measures could cost the UK an estimated \u00a31.4 billion ($1.8bn) per year but could yield benefits to the tune of \u00a380bn ($105bn), according to the CCC. The committee suggested creating a climate levy on fossil-fuel emitting industries, such as airlines, to absorb some of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The report identified afforestation and agro-forestry as the biggest carbon-cutting measures. This would include planting at least 30,000 hectares (and possibly up to 50,000 hectares) of broadleaf and conifer woodland each year by 2050 to increase forest cover from 13% to 17%, and planting trees on agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has already pledged to plant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-launches-new-scheme-to-boost-tree-planting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11 million trees by 2022<\/a>. In his 2019 manifesto, Johnson promised <a href=\"https:\/\/assets-global.website-files.com\/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c\/5dda924905da587992a064ba_Conservative%202019%20Manifesto.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to plant 75,000 acres or just above 30,000 hectares of trees a year<\/a> &#8220;by the end of the next Parliament&#8221; in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Feed-in tariffs and the creation of a UK forestry trading scheme could be used to fund such measures, the CCC suggested, noting that carbon credits from these projects should not be used as offsets to help other sectors of the economy reduce emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Other measures proposed include the roll-out of low-carbon farming practices such as controlling fertilisers release, changing cattle feed and improving livestock health.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Climate news in your inbox?<strong>\u00a0Sign up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/newsletter-sign-up\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report highlighted the need to balance tensions between using land for reducing emissions and growing food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelivering emissions reduction should not be at the expense of increasing food imports that risk \u2018carbon leakage\u2019,\u201d the report warned.<\/p>\n<p>British beef and lamb are some of the least emissions-intensive in the world, CCC chief executive Chris Stark told reporters, warning against meat imports with higher emissions footprints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to end this adversarial discussions between climate and farmers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Government policies, including potential regulatory and pricing measures, will be also necessary to encourage consumers to shift diets and behaviours, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The CCC previously set out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/publication\/net-zero-the-uks-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a series of measures<\/a> which it said could reduce emissions in the UK by up to 96% by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Tackling the remaining 4-5% would require &#8220;some use of options that currently appear more speculative,&#8221; it admitted. This could include greater shifts in diet and land use, more limited aviation demand growth and a larger contribution from technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere &#8211; technologies which have so far not been proven at scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Committee on Climate Change warns a fifth of all agricultural land needs to be released for climate mitigation to help the UK achieve carbon neutrality 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