Increasing beef production won’t reduce emissions

Ben Phalan; William J Ripple; Peter Smith

doi:10.1111/gcb.13436

Increasing beef production won’t reduce emissions

Ben Phalan
, William J Ripple
, Peter Smith

Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

De Oliveira Silva et al. (2016) model beef production in the Brazilian Cerrado, and conclude that – if accompanied by tight deforestation control – increasing production could lower emissions by incentivising better pasture management. While their analysis is valuable in identifying the conditions under which increasing meat consumption could be compatible with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we believe that there is little chance of such conditions occurring in practice. Overall, increasing beef consumption and production is unlikely to be an effective lever for reducing emissions, and is more likely to exacerbate deforestation.

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3255-3256
Number of pages	2
Journal	Global Change Biology
Volume	22
Issue number	10
Early online date	1 Aug 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13436
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

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BP is supported by a grant from CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) through the Brazilian Science without Borders programme (number 88881.068115/2014-01). He thanks Luciana Leite de Araújo for suggesting the topic of this letter.

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Phalan, B., Ripple, W. J. and Smith, P. (2016), Increasing beef production won't reduce emissions. Glob Change Biol, 22: 3255–3256., which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/gcb.13436. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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