{"id":30103,"date":"2021-10-29T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=30103"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:19:25","slug":"climate-crisis-soil-pesticides-fertilizers-red-alert-this-is-not-a-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/10\/climate-crisis-soil-pesticides-fertilizers-red-alert-this-is-not-a-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crisis, Soil, Pesticides, Fertilizers: Red alert! This is Not a Drill!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, October 29, 2021)\u00a0As more than 200 of the world\u2019s countries convene, starting October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukcop26.org\/\">26th U.N. Climate Change Conference\u00a0(COP26)<\/a>, it is important to sound the alarm unequivocally. <strong>We are in a climate emergency<\/strong>. This reality was confirmed, yet again, by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) August 2021 release of part of its sixth report, from Working Group I, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\"><em>Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis<\/em><\/a>. The other parts of the report, to be issued over the next few months, are new assessments from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii\/\">Working Group II<\/a>\u00a0on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation, and from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-3\/\">Working Group III<\/a>\u00a0on mitigation\/averting further climate change. Below we address the urgent need to eliminate petroleum (fossil fuel)-based pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture and land management (parks, playing fields, rights-of-way, and open space) and put in place an urgent and strategic transition to organic practices without being distracted and diverted by claims of \u201cregenerative\u201d practices that do not meet the crisis in a meaningful way.<\/p>\r\n<p>Headline takeaways from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\">this first report<\/a> are that, <em>failing immediate and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions<\/em>:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>the planet\u2019s climate will likely blow by the much-vaunted 1.5\u00b0C threshold (average global temperature increase over the pre-industrial average) by 2040<\/li>\r\n\t<li>impacts of the heating atmosphere and oceans will heighten significantly, including more-intensified and\/or more-frequent heat waves, droughts, storms with massive rainfall, flooding, and wildfires (all of which cause additional downstream health, environmental, property, and commerce disruption, dislocation, and destruction)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>the possibilities of intensified <a href=\"https:\/\/energyeducation.ca\/encyclopedia\/Climate_forcing#:~:text=Climate%20forcing%20is%20the%20physical,a%20number%20of%20forcing%20factors.&amp;text=Examples%20of%20some%20of%20the,greenhouse%20gases%20in%20the%20atmosphere.\">climate forcings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/energyeducation.ca\/encyclopedia\/Climate_threshold\">thresholds\/tipping points<\/a> being breached are rising significantly<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The task for Working Group I was to assess \u201cnew scientific evidence relevant for a world whose climate system is rapidly changing, overwhelmingly due to human influence. The five IPCC assessment cycles since 1990 have comprehensively and consistently laid out the rapidly accumulating evidence of a changing climate system, with the Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 being the first to conclude that warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Sustained changes have been documented in all major elements of the climate system: the atmosphere, land, cryosphere, biosphere and ocean. Multiple lines of evidence indicate the recent large-scale climatic changes are unprecedented in a multi-millennial context, and that they represent a millennial-scale commitment for the slow-responding elements of the climate system, resulting in continued worldwide loss of ice, increase in ocean heat content, sea level rise and deep ocean acidification.\u201d (See page 54 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\">the <em>Physical Science Basis<\/em> report<\/a>; for details on the changes since the fifth IPCC report, see page 51).<\/p>\r\n<p>For readers who may look at the report: it has adopted an \u201carchitecture\u201d that includes several average surface temperature scenarios (based on the nexus of multiple influences), from low to very high emissions resulting in global average temperature increases of 1.9\u00b0C, 2.6\u00b0C, 4.5\u00b0C, 7.0\u00b0C, and 8.5\u00b0C. It also attaches to any projections and assumptions it includes in its analysis the attendant degree of confidence with which it states them (e.g., low, medium, or high). Any conclusions or analytical forecasts the reports makes exist within the contexts of these considerations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\">An example from the report<\/a>: \u201cThis Report reaffirms with high confidence the . . . finding that there is a near-linear relationship between cumulative anthropogenic CO2 emissions and the global warming they cause.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>All of the work done by Beyond Pesticides and others \u2014 on the importance of moving agriculture and land management systems away from conventional, chemical-intensive approaches (via synthetic pesticides and fertilizers) and to organic practices \u2014 happens within the meta-context of the climate emergency, and is not unrelated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/site\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2f.-Chapter-5_FINAL.pdf\">A 2019 IPCC report on climate and food security identifies<\/a> that the food system, which includes conventional agriculture dominantly, is responsible for 25\u201330% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. Multiple strands of Beyond Pesticides\u2019 work converge in the climate issue: the climate, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/02\/nitrogen-fertilizer-found-significant-source-air-pollution\/\">air quality<\/a>, health, and soil impacts of synthetic fertilizers; declining soil health, caused by conventional growing practices that degrade soil\u2019s ability to drawn down and hold carbon; collapsing biodiversity; and emissions, water, air, and ecosystem impacts of large livestock operations, among others.<\/p>\r\n<p>Agricultural emissions come from multiple sources, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iatp.org\/blog\/201904\/latest-agriculture-emissions-data-show-rise-factory-farms\">as reported by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy<\/a> (IATP): crop and livestock activity; food processing, transportation, and retail operations; and supply chain activities, such as the manufacture of pesticides, fertilizers, and fuels. Agricultural emissions alone increased by 10% from 1990 to 2019, with this breakdown: CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions rose by 16.2%, methane by 14.4%, and nitrous oxide by 7.3%. Further, says IATP, much of agricultural GHG emissions is \u201clinked to industrial systems of crop production and the rise of factory farm systems of animal production.\u201d Ben Lilliston, writing for IATP and using data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iatp.org\/blog\/201904\/latest-agriculture-emissions-data-show-rise-factory-farms\">found that the top three agricultural contributors<\/a> to GHG emissions were soil management, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/in-action\/enteric-methane\/background\/what-is-enteric-methane\/en\/\">enteric fermentation<\/a>, and manure management.<\/p>\r\n<p>Factory farms and CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) are virtually always conventionally operated. They use massive amounts of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides on silage crops, generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animallaw.info\/article\/overview-cafos-and-animal-welfare-measures\">treat animals poorly<\/a>, are a source of development of <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/10\/scientists-warn-of-another-pandemic-if-officials-continue-to-ignore-explosion-of-antimicrobial-resistance\/\">antibiotic resistance<\/a>, and generate animal waste and \u201centeric fermentation\u201d (which produces methane) on a huge scale. These operations often use enormous lagoons to \u201cstore\u201d animal waste; there, it decomposes anaerobically and releases methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the atmosphere. Management of animal waste at CAFOs contributes mightily to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/197623\/icode\/\">GHG emissions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/04\/chemical-intensive-land-management-contributes-to-toxic-lagoons-overflowing-with-synthetic-fertilizer-waste\/\">environmental degradation<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/05\/experts-warn-concentrated-animal-feeding-operations-cafos-could-lead-to-the-next-pandemic\/\">human health issues<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\">The IPCC 2021 report notes<\/a> an alarming metric on methane, finding \u201ca resumption of atmospheric methane concentration growth since 2007. . . . faster growth over 2014\u20132019 . . . and growth since 2007 . . . largely driven by emissions from the fossil fuels and agriculture (dominated by livestock) sectors.\u201d Methane (CH<sub>4<\/sub>) is a potent GHG with 80\u201385 times the planet-heating impact of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/methane-crucial-opportunity-climate-fight\">The Environmental Defense Fund (and many others) have recognized<\/a> that \u201cat least 25% of today\u2019s warming is driven by methane from human actions. One of the largest methane sources is the oil and gas industry.\u201d It is these industries that provide the petrochemical feedstocks for the production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. As the role of this sector in the climate emergency has become increasingly recognized over the past decade-plus, these industries have come to see fertilizer, pesticide, and plastics production as important markets for its products.<\/p>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/11\/synthetic-fertilizers-accelerate-climate-crisis-finding-there-is-a-conflict-between-the-way-we-are-feeding-people-and-stabilizing-the-climate\/\">use of synthetic fertilizers is a particular and noxious contributor<\/a> to the rising planetary temperature. This happens largely through these products\u2019 emissions of nitrous oxide, or NO<sub>x<\/sub> \u2014 another potent greenhouse gas that also pollutes the air and feeds the development of ozone. NO<sub>x<\/sub> is roughly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/11092019\/nitrous-oxide-climate-pollutant-explainer-greenhouse-gas-agriculture-livestock\/\">300 times as potent<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0trapping heat as CO<sub>2<\/sub>. (In addition, runoff of high-nitrogen, synthetic fertilizers contaminates water bodies and contributes to eutrophication.) <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/11\/synthetic-fertilizers-accelerate-climate-crisis-finding-there-is-a-conflict-between-the-way-we-are-feeding-people-and-stabilizing-the-climate\/\">Nitrous oxide levels<\/a> have increased, compared to pre-industrial levels, by 20% from all sources. Earlier in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/11\/synthetic-fertilizers-accelerate-climate-crisis-finding-there-is-a-conflict-between-the-way-we-are-feeding-people-and-stabilizing-the-climate\/\">Beyond Pesticides asserted<\/a>, \u201cThe excess nitrogen in these fertilizers is . . . driving global nitrous oxide emissions dangerously high, exacerbating the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Many organic agricultural and land management practices, on the other hand, do not exacerbate emissions and related problems, but actually mitigate them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/infoservices\/pesticidesandyou\/Spring%202007\/hepperly.pdf\">Under organic management<\/a>, healthy soil can absorb and store 1,000 pounds of carbon per acre foot of soil annually. This translates to about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per acre drawn down from the air and sequestered into organic matter in soil. (It is noteworthy that use of <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/08\/synthetic-fertilizers-disrupt-carbon-capturing-ability-of-salt-marshes\/\">synthetic fertilizers actually compromises the carbon-capture<\/a> ability of some kinds of terrain, such as salt marshes.) A fact often overlooked by policy makers in generating climate strategies is that <a href=\"https:\/\/ofrf.org\/organicforclimate\/\">carbon-sequestering soil practices are federally mandated<\/a> in certified organic agriculture.<\/p>\r\n<p>In addition, the healthy soils nurtured by organic practices make landscapes and crops more resilient, buffering them from some impacts of the warming climate, such as flooding and drought, and supporting healthier ecosystems in both the soil and its surrounds. The California Certified Organic Farmers Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ccof.org\/sites\/default\/files\/CCOF-RoadmapPolicy-Report%20Final.pdf\">policy report<\/a> details why and how organic agriculture is key to tackling the climate crisis, and focuses on the importance of organic integrity to ensure that toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizers have no part to play in the future of agriculture.<\/p>\r\n<p>Organic regenerative practices that support soil health (and carbon capacity) include use of cover crops and compost; reduced tillage of the soil; interplanting, crop rotation, and avoidance of monocropping large parcels; shifting some production to perennial crops; and others. Please note, in that last sentence, the use of \u201corganic regenerative.\u201d This is very intentional, and points to an issue that Beyond Pesticides has covered and on which it continues to educate and advocate. \u201cRegenerative\u201d agriculture that is not organic is not a meaningful step forward, and has become a red herring of sorts.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cRegenerative\u201d is a term that has been sometimes sloppily, and sometimes intentionally, tossed around without benefit of clear definition or any regulation. In the Spring of 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/05\/take-action-ensure-regenerative-agriculture-incorporates-organic-standards-in-order-to-fight-climate-change\/\">Beyond Pesticides wrote<\/a>, \u201c\u2018Regenerative\u2019 agriculture is widely considered to be a solution for reducing or even reversing [climate] impacts. Unfortunately, a movement by promoters of chemical-intensive agriculture has fooled some environmentalists into supporting toxic \u2018regenerative\u2019 agriculture. The so-called \u2018regenerative agriculture\u2019 promoted by these groups ignores the direct climate impacts of nitrogen fertilizers, the damage to soil health caused by pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and the fact that pesticide and fertilizer manufacturing is dependent on fossil fuels \u2014 as key ingredients [not only for these products, but] as well, for the heat and energy driving chemical reactions. It is important to see through this deception.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Two examples of industry\u2019s push on \u201cregenerative\u201d agriculture: (1) the <a href=\"https:\/\/soilhealthinstitute.org\/usrcf\/\">Soil Health Institute\u2019s launch of the U.S. Regenerative Cotton Fund<\/a>, \u201can initiative to draw down 1 million metric tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub>e from the atmosphere by 2026 through increased adoption of regenerative soil health practices by cotton producers,\u201d and (2) <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/category\/corporations\/general-mills\/\">General Mills\u2019s 2019 announcement<\/a> of a commitment to convert one million acres of farmland to regenerative practices by 2030.<\/p>\r\n<p>The \u201cno till\u201d strategy started as an approach to limiting soil erosion, and can be, within organic management, a useful strategy to protect soil structure and microorganisms. However, its promotion in some quarters has been \u201ccode\u201d for reducing tillage and using chemical herbicides. Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/08\/210823125646.htm\">a recent study found<\/a> that \u201cWhile no-till agriculture can conserve soil and energy, it relies primarily on herbicides for weed control and to terminate cover crops and perennial crops. . . . When farmers are no longer using tillage to disrupt weed growth, they typically use more herbicides to control weeds.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Regenerative agriculture that is not also organic \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.usda.gov\/grades-standards\/organic-standards\">National Organic Standards<\/a> prohibit the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers \u2014 is not a meaningful advance on climate or other environmental concerns. In February 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/02\/a-national-shift-to-organic-farming-not-carbon-trading-is-critical-to-thwart-the-climate-crisis-and-biodiversity-collapse\/\">Beyond Pesticides wrote<\/a>, \u201cAs aptly stated by Jeff Moyer of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rodaleinstitute.org\/education\/resources\/regenerative-agriculture-and-the-soil-carbon-solution\/\">Rodale Institute<\/a>, \u2018We believe that in order to be regenerative, you have to start by being organic. It\u2019s a little disingenuous to say you can regenerate soil health and sequester carbon and still use nitrogen fertilizers and synthetic pesticides. What you\u2019re really saying is equivalent to saying, \u201cI want to be healthy as a person, but I still want to smoke cigarettes.\u201d\u2019\u201d Beyond Pesticides has repeatedly called out the importance of <em>organic<\/em> regenerative approaches; see its <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/07\/report-finds-true-cost-of-food-in-2019-was-2-1-trillion-in-adverse-health-environmental-and-other-effects\/\">coverage of the 2021 Rockefeller Foundation report<\/a> on the true cost of food, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/02\/herbicide-use-in-regenerative-no-till-contaminates-waterbodies\/\">reporting on unintended consequences<\/a> of \u201cno till\u201d in Vermont.<\/p>\r\n<p>A high-level example of well-intentioned policy that lacks holistic awareness is a feature of the Lima-Paris Action Agenda, an international initiative recognized by the Paris Climate Accord. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pesticidereform.org\/climate-change\/\">As reported by Californians for Pesticide Reform<\/a>, \u201cCountries around the world are now recognizing the unique role that agriculture can play in sequestering carbon. Nearly the entire European Union joined a host of nations in signing onto the international initiative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.4p1000.org\/\">4 per 1000<\/a>. . . . The initiative recognizes that a 4% annual growth rate of soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub>. Countries are called on to do this by scaling up regenerative farming, grazing and land-use practices with a focus on soil health.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Another example is the carbon market approach embodied in President Biden\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climate21.org\/documents\/C21_USDA.pdf\">Climate 21 Project<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/02\/a-national-shift-to-organic-farming-not-carbon-trading-is-critical-to-thwart-the-climate-crisis-and-biodiversity-collapse\/\">according to Beyond Pesticides<\/a>, which wrote that it does not \u201cadequately and comprehensively respond to the current and looming interconnected threats to public health and the environment. The focus on carbon to the exclusion of a holistic approach that addresses complex, life-supporting, biological communities allows the continuation of disproportionate hazards to people of color and communities living adjacent to toxic sites. The mechanisms of carbon trading or the purchasing of carbon offsets under consideration do not establish an end date for admittedly unacceptable materials and practices, nor do they ensure a transition to life-sustaining practices.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>A final, egregious example from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack\u2019s current push for a \u201cmarket-oriented, incentive-based, voluntary system\u201d to address climate and other issues in agriculture. Anyone familiar with industrial agriculture will recognize that language as promotion of chemical-intensive agriculture that focuses far more on profit and production than on precaution or the climate emergency. <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/10\/ag-secretary-vilsack-pushes-petroleum-farming-inputs-fights-eus-climate-friendly-organic-food-to-fork-initiative\/\">Secretary Vilsack recently touted<\/a> his \u201cCoalition for Productivity Growth\u201d as a response to the European Union\u2019s \u201cFarm to Fork\u201d initiative that forwards organic agriculture for multiple reasons, including addressing the climate crisis. Beyond Pesticides Executive Director Jay Feldman commented, \u201cIt is fine to create a structure for communication and coordination, but it is unacceptable to trash an international effort to transition to organic.\u201d By contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/11\/synthetic-fertilizers-accelerate-climate-crisis-finding-there-is-a-conflict-between-the-way-we-are-feeding-people-and-stabilizing-the-climate\/\">a co-author of a 2020 study on agriculture\u2019s NO<sub>x<\/sub> contributions to accelerating climate change, wrote<\/a>, \u201cEurope is the only region in the world that has successfully reduced nitrous oxide emissions over the past two decades.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Industry, policy makers, and even some in the advocacy world continue to approach the climate crisis as if it were not the most urgent and existential issue humans face, and as if there is, somehow, plenty of time to solve it. <em>There is not!<\/em> As the IPCC report all but says outright, humanity is on the precipice of climate chaos. Though the climate scientists who worked on this report do not say so in so many words (such messages will likely arrive with the reports from Working Groups II and III), the bottom line is clear. Humans have nearly run out of time to tackle this emergency with the boldness required to preserve a climate close to that to which all life is adapted. Even a 2\u00b0C increase in average global temperature \u2014 to which we are easily headed, and beyond \u2014 would have massive repercussions for Earth\u2019s natural and human systems.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/02\/a-national-shift-to-organic-farming-not-carbon-trading-is-critical-to-thwart-the-climate-crisis-and-biodiversity-collapse\/\">Earlier in 2021 Beyond Pesticides wrote<\/a> \u2014 and it is truer than ever \u2014 that the climate emergency and the related network of environmental and health issues are \u201cexistential crises that threaten life [that,] to be successfully thwarted, require a meaningful holistic strategy that commits our nation to ending our fossil fuel-based economy and use of petroleum-based materials that release harmful levels of carbon and noxious gases (including greenhouse gases\/GHG) into the environment. Just as there are proposals to end production of the combustion engine and move to electric vehicles, we must demand that agriculture \u2014 across the board and on an expedited five-year schedule \u2014 shift to organic practices, whose standards are already codified in federal law. Organic production and handling practices have a proven, commercially viable track record, and both sequester carbon <em>and<\/em> eliminate petroleum-based pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. And importantly, the data show that this sector of agriculture is now operating without sacrificing productivity or profitability. The only problem: the vested economic interests in the petroleum and chemical industry are holding on to the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Among the prefatory efforts leading to COP26 is a voluntary one led by the U.S. and the UAE (United Arab Emirates); more than 30 countries have joined the effort, as have the U.N.\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. Operating under the moniker \u201cAgriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aimforclimate.org\/\">the initiative\u2019s goal is<\/a> \u201cto catalyze greater investments in\u00a0climate-smart agriculture and\u00a0global\u00a0food systems\u00a0innovation\u00a0to enhance resilience in the often-overlooked agricultural sector to climate change impacts and create co-benefits of climate action.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>As countries meet in Glasgow, they will wrestle with all manner of complex scientific, political, and economic challenges in trying to hammer out agreements that are bold enough and rapid enough to meet the scale and scope of the climate emergency. According to Beyond Pesticides, incremental, narrow, and\/or glacially paced approaches will not do. Leaders must insist on ambitious and binding emissions targets and timelines, and must plan and deploy, as part of the massive climate work ahead, the transition to organic systems, beginning immediately.<\/p>\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, October 29, 2021)\u00a0As more than 200 of the world\u2019s countries convene, starting October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland, for the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference\u00a0(COP26), it is important to sound the alarm unequivocally. We are in a climate emergency. This reality was confirmed, yet again, by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) August 2021 release of part of its sixth report, from Working Group I, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. The other parts of the report, to be issued over the next few months, are new assessments from\u00a0Working Group II\u00a0on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation, and from\u00a0Working Group III\u00a0on mitigation\/averting further climate change. Below we address the urgent need to eliminate petroleum (fossil fuel)-based pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture and land management (parks, playing fields, rights-of-way, and open space) and put in place an urgent and strategic transition to organic practices without being distracted and diverted by claims of \u201cregenerative\u201d practices that do not meet the crisis in a meaningful way. 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