global warming

Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture differ from farming system to farming system

UN agency creates tool to mitigate agriculture’s contribution to global warming

15 February 2011
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has initiated a programme to improve global information on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and accurately assess farming’s potential to mitigate global warming.

Record-setting 2010 highlights global warming trend, says UN weather agency

20 January 2011
The year 2010 ranked as the warmest on record – together with 2005 and 1998 – according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which added that last year also witnessed a large number of extreme weather events, including the heat wave in Russia and the devastating floods in Pakistan.