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密歇根新闻广播 减少城市中与食物有关的温室气体排放

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A lot of cities have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions1 in the wake of President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.

That could mean things like cleaner busses – or energy efficiency. But a sizable chunk2 of our carbon footprint can be traced to how we get and use our food.

Eugene Mohareb looked into the opportunity cities have to rethink their food systems, in a study in Environmental Science & Technology. He's a lecturer in sustainable urban systems at the University of Reading in the UK.

"There are a lot of possibilities all the way through the food system, starting with production, of course. But ultimately, what we wanted to show in our research is the first place we need to think when we're looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the food system is cities," he says.

Mohareb says diet choices (such as eating less red meat) and reducing food waste are two big ways people in cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions.

"What we found was that around one-third of all emissions can be attributed directly to the production side, so, on the farm," he says. "But the remaining two-thirds can be attributed to activities that are generally occurring within urban areas."

He says one thing that surprised them in their research was that increasing urban agriculture on vacant land was not likely to cut emissions by much. He says if you took half of all the vacant land in cities, and grew produce on it, it would reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by just one percent.

"When you consider that [that] produce tends to be a very small fraction of the total food system's greenhouse gas emissions, there's really not a lot of gains to be realized by shifting agriculture from centralized large-scale production to more desegregated smaller scale production," he says.


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1 emissions 1a87f8769eb755734e056efecb5e2da9     
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
参考例句:
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
2 chunk Kqwzz     
n.厚片,大块,相当大的部分(数量)
参考例句:
  • They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
  • The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。
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