ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how despite international efforts to address climate change and curb emissions dating back to the late 1980s and early 1990s it is only recently that the challenge of reducing emissions from agriculture and land use, and the development of tangible prescriptions for action, have come into sharper focus. The chapter explains the work of the IPCC in assessing climate change and land, before examining the UK Climate Change Committee’s suggested approach to agriculture and land use. Other organisations, including the National Farmers’ Union, have also set out plans to achieve net zero. These other pathways are assessed and compared before the chapter concludes by explaining the main tensions to be reconciled if the quest for a transition to net zero is to be successful.
