FAO pushes inclusion of agriculture in climate treaty; says Kyoto offered too little to farmers

The UN Food and Agricultural Organization has urged negotiators for the new Copenhagen treaty to include agricultural opportunities in their discussions. The FAO pointed out that carbon sequestration is a land-based and agriocultural-badsed opportunity, and also that agriculture accounts for 14 percent of greenhouse gas release and, combined with deforestation, accounts for 17 percent of GHGs.

The FAO said that the Kyoto Treaty offered only minimal opportunities for mitigating agricultural-based emissions. Washington and Rome, 2 April 2009 – FAO has urged policy makers to include agriculture in negotiations for a new climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol.

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