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Responding to the Climate Challenge
The IFOAM EU Group believes that organic agriculture not only offers real solutions to mitigating the severity of global climate change, but can also act as a buffer against the possible negative effects.
Mitigation
• Closed-loop systems reduce the need for the production and long-range transporting of nutrients and feed.
• Building healthy soils minimises the carbon loss resulting from soil erosion and improves carbon sequestration
• Non-use of chemical fertilisers have a huge impact on carbon and nitrogen emissions:
Adaptation
• Organic farmland more resilient to floods and droughts due to high levels of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC).
• Rich biodiversity,characteritiscs found on organic farms, contribute to adaptation by helping to maintain eco-system services and decrease yield variability.
• Multiple production activities dispersing risk through multiple disperses risk through multiple production activities, reducing input costs and minimising exposure to volatile markets.
EU Policy processes
• European Commission's proposal for a legislation on accounting of greenhouse gas emissions from climate change and land use (LULUCF).
• European Parliament procedure on the Commission's proposal for a legislation on accounting of greenhouse gas emmission from climate change and land use (LULUCF).
• Commission Roadmap on Climate change adaption Strategy.
Voting Recommendations
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IFOAM EU, 2012 |
Position Papers
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Role in Climate Change Mitigation
IFOAM, 2004
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The EU Soil Directive
IFOAM EU Group, Sep 2011 |
Studies
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Contribution to Mitigation
IFOAM/IFOAM EU Group, 2009 |
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Climate Change and Food Security
IFOAM/IFOAM EU Group, 2009
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Climate Adaptation in Africa
IFOAM, 2009 |
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