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Demanding targets need demanding actions, says CLA The CLA welcomes the seriousness with which the Government is taking the need to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions which threaten our own and the world's ability to feed itself. CLA President Henry Aubrey-Fletcher said: "It is right to set demanding targets. However, it is the actions to deliver the targets which will be most important.
"The GHG emissions from agriculture are the most difficult to deal with because they are nearly all not CO2, but nitrous oxide and methane whose measurement is most difficult and uncertain. In addition nearly all the measures to reduce emissions by adjusting farming methods have highly uncertain outcomes. This isn't a simple matter of changing lightbulbs and installing loft insulation."
The CLA President added: "However, with present knowledge we simply do not know how to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions to the levels demanded for 2050 without reducing food production. We welcome the report's recognition that there is considerable uncertainty around realistically achievable GHG emissions reduction and that further research will be needed as not enough good information or farm specific data is available."
"Agriculture can, and will, make efficiency savings which can further reduce our GHG emissions above the 18 percent reductions already achieved since 1990. The CLA has played a leading role in developing our CALM – Carbon Accounts for Land Managers – calculator, to raise awareness and focus attention of land managers."
The land based contribution to climate change is likely to be in the big development of renewable energy especially heat and power from localised wood fuel and from the removal of waste and generation of energy through Anaerobic Digestion or biogas.
There is also a big contribution to make by substituting timber and other materials such as hemp for building materials which are massive CO2 emitters in their manufacture.
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