Natural land areas are disappearing worldwide. The IPCC released a report last week on the relationship between land use and climate change, calling for immediate change to help the land remain sustainable. Greenpeace said this was also required in Luxembourg, to preserve sustainability and bio-diversity.
The IPCC also warned of further losses to areas of land and our livelihoods. One option to tackle the ongoing crisis would be to increase protected areas and regeneration of affected areas.
The core message of the IPCC report is that, globally, land use needs to change. Forests need to be saved and the agricultural industry must adapt. The director of Greenpeace Luxembourg, Raymond Aendekerk, said the agricultural sector was in need of a paradigm change.
Globally, as Aendekerk explained, we must produce less Co2 and ensure the protection of forests to cut those emissions. The agricultural industry must become more resilient to extreme weather, notably long drought periods and that applies to Luxembourg's agriculture as well, as Aendekerk stressed. The sector must move to sustainable agriculture, fight erosion, and increase technical measures.
There are other changes that must be made, which is the ecological shift to using the land to produce plant-based agriculture and cut down on cattle farming, although the Greenpeace Luxembourg director highlighted that he did not mean that it should be abolished, but heavily reduced. Instead, moving to plant-based farming such as proteins like soy would mean Luxembourg would not be reliant on imports.
