What does it mean and how can a country's agriculture achieve carbon neutrality. WRI's report out today on how to do that in Denmark. Blog here. https://www.wri.org/insights/how-make-agriculture-carbon-neutral-lessons-denmark - Link to report here. https://www.wri.org/research/pathway-carbon-neutral-agriculture-denmark.
Several lessons. See string.

Lesson one. Ag & climate is where energy sector was 25 yrs ago before investments in solar/wind/batteries showed the way. Many very promising opportunities in Ag too. Need dedicated teams working with farmers to pursue - like Apple developing I-Phone or U.S. going to moon.

2: Produce more food, not less, even milk & meat. Danes, like other big eaters, should eat less milk/meat, but world needs 45% more in 2050 even if they do. Why? 2/3 people in 2050 in countries that now consume 1/4 meat/milk of westerners. Need room for them to eat a little.

Also, need to focus reduced consumption on beef. It has 5 times emissions of dairy & 8-10 times emissions of pork and poultry.

3. Need social contract: increased production occurs only as ag reduces emissions and restores peatlands and forests. Dk ag helps feed world, but Danes need to benefit too. By 2035, Dk ag could otherwise be 80% of DK GHGs, only 1.5% of GDP. Restor. also needed for C neutrality.

4. Dk ag land, like all ag land on average, needs to produce 45% more food per hectare because otherwise world must clear more forests other habitats. We call that "land area carbon neutrality." Otherwise, other farmers have to do more.

5. Must do that in Latin America too, where DK soybeans come from. "Deforestation-free" requires more than just buying soybeans from previously deforested lands. Must boost production by 45% more per hectare too. Can do that in part through better grazing to make room for soy.

6. Be non-ideological. Some options eco-agricultural, such as using grass to press out protein to replace soybeans. Some just higher wheat yields. Some high-tech eco-ag, such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria for grains. All of the above needed.