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logy adopted by DEFRA and Garnett on the one hand, and by the FAO on the other. DEFRA figures and Garnett's are
compared at Garnett, T (2008), Cooking Up a Storm , Food Climate Research Network, p 23.
65 Cranfield (2006), Determining the Environmental Burdens and Resource Use in the Production of Agricultural and
Horticutural Commodities , DEFRA project report ISO295, Natural Resource Management Institute, Cranfield University
Silsoe Research Institute, August 2006, p 96.
66 The IPPC uses the same default factors for a given amount of nitrogen, whether it comes from artificial fertilizer,
manure or green manure. See also Crutzen P J et al (2007), 'N 2 O Release from Agro-Biofuel Production Negates Global
Warming Reduction by Replacing Fossil Fuels', Atmos Chem Phys Discuss 7, pp 11191-205
67 Clarkson, R and Deyes, Kathryn (2002), Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon Emissions , Government Economic
Service Working paper 140, HM Treasury/DEFRA, 2002.
68 IPPC (2001), Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis ; IPCC Working Group 1 AR4 Report, Chapter 2, p 214.
69 Environmental Change Institute (2006), op cit .34.
70 Russell, Geoff (2009), Kyoto's $20 Trillion Greenhouse Gas Blunder , Crikey.com , 7 July 2009, ht-
tp://vegclimatealliance.org/kyotos-20-trillion-greenhouse-gas-factor-blunder/ . The blowtorch analogy first apeared in
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tp://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-missing-link-in-the-garnaut-report-20080709-3cjh.html?page=-1
71 This figure is dependent on some variables such as the amount of OH in the atmosphere. Environmental Change
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I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , 4.2, Cambridge University Press,
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72 Stern, N (2007), The Economics of Climate Change , Cambridge, p 223.
73 IPCC (2007), Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change , Cambridge University Press, Chapter 2,pp 140-142 http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/
wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter2.pdf
74 DEFRA (2008), UK Climate Change Sustainability Indicator: 2006 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Final Fig-
ure , http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2008/080131a.htm ; EIA (2008), Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the US 2008 ,
ftp://ftp.eia.doe.gov/pub/oiaf/1605/cdrom/pdf/ggrpt/057308.pdf ; Padma, T V, India and Climate Change: Facts and
Figures , Sci Dev Net, 31 August 2006, http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/mitigation/features/india-
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75 Farmers Weekly (2007), 'Milk Yield Holds the Key to Lower Carbon Footprint', Farmers Weekly , 20 August 2007.
76 FAO (2006), op cit
77 IPCC (2007), Climate Change 2007: Mitigation, Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Re-
port (AR4) of the IPCC (Introduction) eds B Metz et al , Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp 103-5.
78 Ibid., p 104.
79 Goodland, Robert (1998), 'Environmental Sutainability in Agriculture: Bioethical and Religious Arguments
Against Carnivory', in J Lemons et al (eds), Ecological Sustainability and Integrity , Kluwer, 1998, pp 235-65.
80 Goodland, R and Anhang, J (2009), Livestock and Climate Change: What if the Key Actors in Climate Change are
Cows, Pigs and Chickens? Worldwatch, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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