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Recently Powlson et al.1 published a Perspective in Nature Climate Change that strongly refers to Chapter 4 of the 2013 UNEP Emissions Gap Report2. They argue that we used mitigation potentials of no-tillage agriculture that are overly optimistic, which would lead to unrealistic expectations regarding no-tillage as a greenhouse-gas mitigation option. Below we respond to a few critical points of their review, although it merits a more in-depth discourse:

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1. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), United Nations Avenue, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya
   Henry Neufeldt
2. Lexeme Consulting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
   Gabrielle Kissinger
3. Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 47, Kassel, 34117, Germany
   Joseph Alcamo

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1. Henry Neufeldt
2. Gabrielle Kissinger
3. Joseph Alcamo

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Neufeldt, H., Kissinger, G. & Alcamo, J. No-till agriculture and climate change mitigation.Nature Clim Change 5, 488–489 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2653

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• Published: 21 May 2015
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