UNEP pays tribute to the late Robert Goodland
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Goodland reached his famous "51 per cent" livestock assessment in a study - conducted with World Bank colleague Jeff Anhang - that looked at the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses from oil, natural gas, and coal compared to the life cycle and supply chain emissions of domesticated animals raised for food.
The study concluded that greenhouse gases from the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food accounted for just over half of annual emissions caused by humans, and should be given higher priority in global efforts to fight climate change.
Goodland was elected Metropolitan Chair of the Ecological Society of America in 1989 and President of the International Environmental Assessment Association in 1993.
After leaving the World Bank in 2001, Goodland served as technical director to the independent Extractive Industry Review of the World Bank Group's oil, gas, and mining portfolio, and worked for the Inspection Panel in 2005 and 2006.
Among other awards, he received the Millennial Conservation Prize in 2000 and the first-ever Coolidge Memorial Medal presented by the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) for outstanding contributions to environmental conservation in 2008.
He also co-founded the website "Chomping Climate Change", which provides materials for anyone interested in combating climate change, particularly youth.
(UNEP contributed to the story)
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