Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification
Reducing emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as methane and nitrous oxide, and sequestering carbon in the soil or in living biomass can help reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change while improving productivity and reducing resource use. There is an increasing demand fo...
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| author | Lydia P Olander Eva Wollenberg Francesco N Tubiello Martin Herold |
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| description | Reducing emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as methane and nitrous oxide, and sequestering carbon in the soil or in living biomass can help reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change while improving productivity and reducing resource use. There is an increasing demand for improved, low cost quantification of GHGs in agriculture, whether for national reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), underpinning and stimulating improved practices, establishing crediting mechanisms, or supporting green products. This ERL focus issue highlights GHG quantification to call attention to our existing knowledge and opportunities for further progress. In this article we synthesize the findings of 21 papers on the current state of global capability for agricultural GHG quantification and visions for its improvement. We conclude that strategic investment in quantification can lead to significant global improvement in agricultural GHG estimation in the near term. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59c3964aec6647048ba76ce974b688972023-08-09T14:47:21ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262014-01-019707500310.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075003Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantificationLydia P Olander0Eva Wollenberg1Francesco N Tubiello2Martin Herold3Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University , Durham, North Carolina, USAUniversity of Vermont and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change , Agriculture and Food Security, Vermont, USAClimate, Energy and Tenure Division, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, FAO, Via Terme di Caracalla, Rome, I-00153, ItalyCenter of Geo-Information, Department of Environmental Science, Wageningen University , Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The NetherlandsReducing emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as methane and nitrous oxide, and sequestering carbon in the soil or in living biomass can help reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change while improving productivity and reducing resource use. There is an increasing demand for improved, low cost quantification of GHGs in agriculture, whether for national reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), underpinning and stimulating improved practices, establishing crediting mechanisms, or supporting green products. This ERL focus issue highlights GHG quantification to call attention to our existing knowledge and opportunities for further progress. In this article we synthesize the findings of 21 papers on the current state of global capability for agricultural GHG quantification and visions for its improvement. We conclude that strategic investment in quantification can lead to significant global improvement in agricultural GHG estimation in the near term.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075003greenhouse gas reductionsclimate smart agricultureGHG quantification tools and modelsnational GHG accounting |
| spellingShingle | Lydia P Olander Eva Wollenberg Francesco N Tubiello Martin Herold Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification Environmental Research Letters greenhouse gas reductions climate smart agriculture GHG quantification tools and models national GHG accounting |
| title | Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification |
| title_full | Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification |
| title_fullStr | Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification |
| title_full_unstemmed | Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification |
| title_short | Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification |
| title_sort | synthesis and review advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification |
| topic | greenhouse gas reductions climate smart agriculture GHG quantification tools and models national GHG accounting |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075003 |
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