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A fresh look at livestock greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potential in Europe
Author(s) -
Goodland Robert
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
global change biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.146
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1365-2486
pISSN - 1354-1013
DOI - 10.1111/gcb.12454
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , livestock , life cycle assessment , natural resource economics , environmental science , agricultural economics , business , environmental protection , geography , economics , production (economics) , forestry , ecology , biology , macroeconomics
This journal published an article by Bellarby et al. entitled "Livestock greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potential in Europe" (Bellarby et al., 2013), which became the sole source for a news release by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre entitled "GHG emissions from the EU livestock sector could be mitigated by up to 60%" (EC, 2013). I will outline four sets of issues that may change the Joint Research Centre’s conclusions.