Agroforestry’s role in an energy transformation for human and planetary health: bioenergy and climate change

When agroforestry was ten years old as formal term, the Brundtland report on Sustainable Development reviewed many of the aspects that are still part of the current discussions – but it did not have the ‘global climate change’ issue on its agenda yet. Energy was amply discussed, however, and there the issue of carbon emissions was getting attention. Remarkably soon after that report, in 1992, the Rio conventions put climate change, biodiversity and desertification (land degradation) at the same level of priority and global commitments were made.