Climate Change
Agriculture is vulnerable to changes in climate and weather patterns. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests growing seasons, water availability and crop productivity will all be affected by climate change. This raises concerns about future food supply and security.
Increasing the productivity of agriculture on existing farmland can meet growing demand for food without expanding into forests and uncultivated land, which store large quantities of carbon. In addition, agriculture has the potential to reduce greenhouse gases through the production of crops for biofuels, a lower-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
However, agriculture also contributes to around 14 percent of total global man-made greenhouse gas emissions. These can be reduced by increasing carbon captured by plants and soils through sustainable agriculture.
The impact of a changing climate on agriculture creates new challenges and opportunities for Syngenta. We are addressing climate change in two ways. First, we help our customers to adapt to changing agricultural patterns and support their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Second, we are making our operations more energy efficient and encouraging our suppliers and others throughout our entire value chain to do the same.
Syngenta is committed to:
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations
- Continuously improving the energy efficiency of our operations
- Investing in technical solutions that will increase carbon capture and nitrogen efficiency in agriculture
- Helping our customers implement sustainable farming methods that reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Enabling agriculture to adapt to a changing climate.
