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The climate change issue that gets overlooked: agriculture

The climate change issue that gets overlooked: agriculture

Update: 2025-11-21
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This year's COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil, highlighted food, forests and land as key topics to be addressed. One sector that spreads across all of these is agriculture, which is responsible for about one-third of global carbon emissions. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler discusses how agriculture and climate change are intertwined, with Kaveh Zahedi, the climate director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

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The climate change issue that gets overlooked: agriculture

The climate change issue that gets overlooked: agriculture

Hannah Chanatry