The EU could greatly reduce carbon emissions by embracing GM crops

By Michael Le Page

The European Union could greatly reduce carbon emissions by embracing genetically engineered crops. If EU countries had grown genetically modified crops in 2017, in total they would have cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 33 million tonnes of carbon dioxide that year, according to an analysis.

The reason is that GM crops have higher average yields, meaning less land is needed to produce the same amount of food. “That can reduce clearing of new agricultural land,” says study co-author Emma Kovak at the Breakthrough Institute …