Agricultural Exceptionalism in the Climate Change Treaties

Abstract Agricultural emissions in most countries have been increasing against a backdrop of decreasing non-agricultural emissions. The climate change treaties contain qualification that appears to exempt the agricultural sector from mitigation greenhouse gas where there is ‘threat food production’. This potential exception gives rise risk states will invoke threat production order shield their intensifying pressure. A systematic analysis documentation issued pursuant reveals many states, both developed and developing, made statements suggesting relieved some or all pressure placed on other economic sectors deliver outcomes. However, this concern threaten only weakly supported, even as it threatens achievement Paris Agreement's goal keeping global warming ‘well below 2°C’.