Not exact matches
In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of
urban agriculture (horticulture,
forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on
urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in
urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of
urban organic
wastes and
waste water, technology development for
urban agriculture and financing
urban agriculture.
This proposes expansion of the CDM's Programme of Activities approach to enable aggregation of city - based GHG mitigation reductions broadly covered by five sectors: energy, transport, solid
waste, water and wastewater, and
urban forestry.
Achieving the recovery of 220ppm of CO2 by 2100, and thereby conserving at least a fraction of marine life by steadily reversing acidification, would mean sequestering around 9.2 GtsC / yr for 50 yrs, which would almost certainly require the local processing of additional biomass from
urban, farm and
forestry wastes.
In Oregon, biomass
waste from
urban, agricultural, and
forestry sources could generate hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every year, while electricity could cleanly and affordably power increasing numbers of new advanced vehicles.
Thirdly,
urban agriculture and
urban forestry contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change by reducing runoff, keeping flood plains free from construction, reducing
urban temperatures, capturing dust and CO2, while growing fresh food close to consumers reduces energy spent in transport, cooling, processing and packaging, whilst productive reuse of
urban organic
wastes and wastewater (and the nutrients these contain) reduces methane emissions from landfills and energy use in fertilizer production.