Francesco Cherubini likes to ask his Industrial Ecology students what’s the most common use of land today, and nearly all of them get the answer wrong.
Francesco Cherubini likes to ask his Industrial Ecology students what’s the most common use of land today, and nearly all of them get the answer wrong.
“The correct answer is grazing land,” Cherubini, a professor and director of NTNU’s Industrial Ecology Programme. “Today we are using nearly half of the land on our planet to feed animals — and not people.”
Cherubini has more than an academic interest in this question — and what the answer means. He’s one of the lead authors of the IPCC’s new special report, released today, on Climate Change and Land, and was the only author from a Norwegian-based institution.
He formally handed the report to Ellen Hambro, Director General of the Norwegian Environment Agency, and Ola Elvestuen, Minister of Climate and Environment on Thursday, 8 August when the IPCC released the report.
Read more at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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