Agriculture's Role in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Agriculture's
Role in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Prepared for the Pew Center on
Global Climate Change Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
John M. Antle, Montana State University John Sheehan, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory Eldor A. Paul, Colorado State
University Download Entire Report (pdf) Eileen Claussen,
President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change This Pew Center
report is the fourth in our series examining key sectors,
technologies, and policy options to construct the “10-50
Solution” to climate change. The idea is that we need to tackle
climate change over the next fifty years, one decade at a time.
This report is also a companion paper to Agriculture and Forest
Lands: U.S. Carbon Policy Strategies, being published
simultaneously. Our reports on electricity, buildings, and
transportation described the options available now and in the
future for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from those sectors.
Agriculture may be less important than those