Carbon Sequestration

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 FERN – Misleading numbers: The Case for Separating Land and Fossil Based Carbon Emissions

Mackey, B., Prentice, I. C., Steffen, W., House, J. I., Lindenmayer, D., Keith, H., & Berry, S. (2013).Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy. Nature Climate Change, 3(6), 552-557.

Renou-Wilson, F., Wilson, D., Barry, C., Foy, B., & Müller, C. Carbon Loss from Drained Organic Soils under Grassland–CALISTO.

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Climate Change

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Sustainable Diets

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Bajželj, B., Richards, K. S., Allwood, J. M., Smith, P., Dennis, J. S., Curmi, E., & Gilligan, C. A. (2014). Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 4(10), 924-929.

Chatham House – Livestock: Climate Change’s Forgotten Sector: Global Public Opinion on Meat and Dairy Consumption

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Gonzalez, C., & Garnett, T. (2016). Plates, pyramids and planets – Developments in national healthy and sustainable dietary guidelines: a state of play assessment. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and The Food Climate Research Network at The University of Oxford

Hallström, E., Röös, E., & Börjesson, P. (2014). Sustainable meat consumption: A quantitative analysis of nutritional intake, greenhouse gas emissions and land use from a Swedish perspective. Food Policy, 47, 81-90.

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Stehfest, E., Bouwman, L., Van Vuuren, D. P., Den Elzen, M. G., Eickhout, B., & Kabat, P. (2009). Climate benefits of changing diet. Climatic change,95(1-2), 83-102.

Springmann, M., Godfray, H. C. J., Rayner, M., & Scarborough, P. (2016). Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(15), 4146-4151.

Tilman, D., & Clark, M. (2014). Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health. Nature, 515(7528), 518-522.

Wellesley, L., Happer, C., & Froggatt, A. (2015). Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption. Chatham House.

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems

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Garnett, T. (2011). Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)?. Food policy,36, S23-S32.

Garnett, T., Appleby, M. C., Balmford, A., Bateman, I. J., Benton, T. G., Bloomer, P., … & Herrero, M. (2013). Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies. Science, 341(6141), 33-34.

Garnett, T., Röös, E., & Little, D. (2015). Lean, green, mean, obscene…? What is efficiency? And is it sustainable. Food Climate Research Network.

Gerber, P. J., Steinfeld, H., Henderson, B., Mottet, A., Opio, C., Dijkman, J., … & Tempio, G. (2013). Tackling climate change through livestock.

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Analysis / Opinion

Climate change going beyond dangerous – Brutal numbers and tenuous hope by Prof Kevin Anderson

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Anderson, K. (2015). Talks in the city of light generate more heat. Nature,528(7583), 437-437.

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