Journal article
Does 'net zero' mean zero cows?
- Abstract:
- A significant share of anthropogenic global warming comes from livestock production. There is debate about whether there can be any role for livestock in a climatically sustainable future; the debate is particularly heated for cows and sheep, largely due to the methane they burp out. However, short-lived gases like methane affect climate in a fundamentally different way than long-lived gases like carbon dioxide. Consequently, climate stabilization does not require zeroing-out cattle herds. But this doesn't mean we can eat our beef and have it (a tolerable climate) too-livestock still contribute to global warming. Preventing or limiting future growth in livestock-related emissions can represent a sensible part of the portfolio of responses to the climate crisis, particularly when carbon dioxide emissions are not on track to reach net zero sufficiently quickly.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/00963402.2024.2339068
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+ Wellcome Trust
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/029chgv08
- Grant:
- 205212/Z/16/Z
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/001aqnf71
- Grant:
- NE/V013106/1
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists More from this journal
- Volume:
- 80
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 153-157
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2024-05-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-03-29
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1938-3282
- ISSN:
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0096-3402
- Pmid:
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39445099
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1995349
- Local pid:
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pubs:1995349
- Deposit date:
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2024-12-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Lynch and Pierrehumbert
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent
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