Land and climate change, explained: What the new IPCC report says, why it matters | Explained News, The Indian Express

Land and climate change, explained: What the new IPCC report says, why it matters | Explained News, The Indian Express

Reported by Amitabh Sinha |Edited by Explained Desk |Pune |Updated: August 8, 2019 4:28:44 pm

Land and climate change, explained: What the new IPCC report says, why it matters

This is the first time that the IPCC, whose job it is to assess already-published scientific literature to update our knowledge of climate change science, has focused its attention solely on the land sector.

Activities like agriculture and cattle rearing are a major source of methane and nitrous oxide, both of which are hundreds of times more dangerous than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Thursday presents the most recent evidence on how the different uses of land — forests, agriculture, urbanisation — are affecting and getting affected by climate change.