• National Farmers Union
  • - 10-09-2010
PK testimonial

Farming is going to be central to providing solutions to the big challenges of the future - at the NFU we are working to secure a key and profitable role for UK farmers.

Peter Kendall, NFU President

Climate talks - The Road to Copenhagen

01 Dec 2009

The world's leaders met in Copenhagen last year to try to reach agreement on tackling climate change.

The talks hoped to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol and so set greenhouse gas emissions targets for both developed and some developing/emerging economies.

There was also discussion on how developing countries could be helped to both reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Many organisations including the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organsiation) and IFAP (International Federation of Agricultural Producers) have been calling for the role of agriculture to be recognised within the new global agreement as part of the solution to climate change.

Read more about the background to the talks and what the NFU's been doing in the document on the right.

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