Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to 7.1 gigatons of CO2 per year, come from livestock chains.
23% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation, exceeding emissions from the global transport sector.
57% of primary forests and 1/3 of plant species are found in LAC (World Bank, 2020).
67% of incentive resources in Uruguay are allocated to promote investment, followed by 13% for export promotion and 9% for personnel hiring (Lavalleja & Scalese, 2020).
23% of incentives in Uruguay go to primary activities, while manufacturing industry receives 22%, concentrating almost half of the total support (Lavalleja & Scalese, 2020).
14% could increase the volume of trade in clean technologies, including those for air pollution control, if tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in these technologies are eliminated (UNEP, 2019).
6.5 million premature deaths annually are caused by air pollution (UNEP, 2019).
15% of Brazil's territory occupies the Atlantic Forest, a critical biome with 35% of the country's plants and the most threatened (Da Silva R. F. F. B. et al., 2019).
585 million hectares will need to be reforested to limit warming to 1.5 °C (WRI, 2019).
3/4 of total greenhouse gas emissions come from the energy sector (Bouckaert, 2021).
