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Resource Determining the environmental burdens and resource use in the production of agricultural and horticultural commodities This is an LCA of the production of the major agricultural/livestock commodities in the UK (Defra-funded Projects IS0205). The 10 key commodities studied were bread wheat, potatoes, oilseed rape, tomatoes, beef, pig meat, sheep meat, poultry meat, milk and eggs and the main conclusions are as follows: Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the single largest contributor to global warming potential (GWP) for all commodities except tomatoes, exceeding 80% in some cases. Read
Resource The Climate Group publishes briefing on the Copenhagen Accord The Climate Group has published an assessment of the Copenhagen summit together with a shorter Q&A. It concludes that there are positive and less positive points in the Copenhagen Accord: Positive points Having the US, China, India and other major developing countries sign up to a joint climate agreement for the first time. All of these countries making unconditional national pledges to either cut or slow the growth of their emissions and/or implement specific measures to achieve this. Read
