China's low-emission pathways toward climate-neutral livestock production for animal-derived foods

Rong Wang; Zhaohai Bai; Jinfeng Chang; Qiushuang Li; Alexander N. Hristov; Pete Smith; Yulong Yin; Zhiliang Tan; Min Wang

doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100220

China's low-emission pathways toward climate-neutral livestock production for animal-derived foods

Rong Wang, Zhaohai Bai, Jinfeng Chang, Qiushuang Li, Alexander N. Hristov, Pete Smith, Yulong Yin, Zhiliang Tan, Min Wang^*

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Abstract

Animal-derived food production accounts for one-third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Diet followed in China is ranked as low-carbon emitting (i.e., 0.21 t CO₂-eq per capita in 2018, ranking at 145^th of 168 countries) due to the low average animal-derived food consumption rate, and preferential consumption of animal-derived foods with lower GHG emissions (i.e., pork and eggs versus beef and milk). However, the projected increase in GHG emissions from livestock production poses great challenges for achieving China's “carbon neutrality” pledge. We propose that the livestock sector in China may achieve “climate neutrality” with net-zero warming around 2050 by implementing healthy diet and mitigation strategies to control enteric methane emissions.

Original language	English
Article number	100220
Number of pages	3
Journal	The Innovation
Volume	3
Issue number	2
Early online date	12 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100220
Publication status	Published - 29 Mar 2022

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31922080 and 31872403 ), China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA and the Hunan province science and technology plan (Grant No. 2022NK2021 ).

Keywords

enteric methane emissions
greenhouse gas
healthy diet
methane mitigation
ruminant animals

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