Sentences with phrase «agricultural emissions of the gas»

Global agricultural emissions of the gas have increased by 20 per cent in the last century as a result of widespread use of nitrogen - based synthetic fertilizers.

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Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

«More than 1,400 researchers and stakeholders worldwide use the DNDC Model on over 40 agricultural crops to assess the effects of various management practices on greenhouse gas emissions,» said Allison Jordan, CSWA executive director.

Meat production is responsible for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, with some scientists saying the percentage is higher.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

Table 6: Pathways of organic agriculture to directly or indirectly reduce agricultural trace gas emissions

The production and use of fertilizer has led to significant greenhouse gas emissions, Burney said, but that increase pales in comparison with what might have been had more forests and grasslands been shifted to agricultural uses.

It's a subject that has not gotten much attention, even as more research focuses on how to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and how to make farming more resilient to the impacts of extreme weather.

FIELD FUMES California's agricultural regions are responsible for between 20 and 51 percent of the total emissions of nitrogen oxide gases in the state, new research finds.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

A lifecycle analysis conducted by EWG that took into account the production and distribution of 20 common agricultural products found that red meat such as beef and lamb is responsible for 10 to 40 times as many greenhouse gas emissions as common vegetables and grains.

Butler showed that if every person in the world ate 50 g of red meat and 40 g of white meat per day by 2050, greenhouse gas emissions from meat production would stabilise at 2005 levels — a target cited in national plans for agricultural emissions.

The scientists determined that eliminating food animals from U.S. production would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but not by the full 49 percent of agricultural emissions that animals currently contribute.

Greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat in the atmosphere, widespread clearing of forests and agricultural activities are major factors driving temperature increases since 1951, the report states.

Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions.

Agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) make up 8.1 % of total U.S. GHG emissions.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gasGas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gasgas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary shall prepare and publish in the Federal Register a list of domestic agricultural and forestry practice types that are eligible to generate offset credits under this title because the practices avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases.

Agricultural soils and the urine deposited by grazing animals are the main source of nitrous oxide Read more about Greener pastures reduce greenhouse gas emission - Scimex

In 2011, livestock was responsible for 39 percent of total agricultural - based greenhouse gas emissions, with beef cattle being responsible for 55 percent of that.

Executive Director of Maui Tomorrow Albert Perez discusses the importance of regenerative agricultural tourism which helps offset carbon gas emissions.

By itself, C sequestration in agricultural soils can make only modest contributions (e.g. 3 - 6 % of total fossil C emissions) to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Agricultural activities contribute directly to emissions of greenhouse gases through a variety of processes.

A recent Canadian study of the nation - wide emissions of greenhouse gases from agricultural activities used nitrous oxide emissions factors which indicated that nitrous oxide emissions from anhydrous ammonia and ammonium phosphate were from four to five times as high as those from urea or ammonium nitrate.

In Indonesia, 60 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions come from land - use change, in part, fuelled by the growing demand for palm oil and agricultural crops.

In addressing the challenge of food security and climate change, the world faces therefore three inter-related challenges: first, the need to double food production by 2050 to meet growing world demand; second, the need to adapt agricultural production to shifting weather patterns; and third, the need to minimize agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions while maximizing its potential to mitigate climate change.

Emissions of gases related to agricultural productivity, for example N2O and CH4, are tied to the level of production.

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

In India, the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are produced from agricultural inputs, farm machinery, soil displacement, residue management and irrigation.

More precisely, it is a «win - win» proposition that enhances agricultural productivity and farm incomes, reduces climatic risks (especially drought), and controls emission of green - house gases.

Model additions include results from (i) quantum chemical calculations that clarify the previously uncertain gas phase mechanism of formation of MSA and (ii) a combination of published and experimental estimates of OSC emissions, such as those from marine, agricultural, and urban processes, which include pet waste and human breath.

The term «food miles» is often used to describe the potential greenhouse gas emission impact of agricultural products.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.

In the primary markets, carbon credits are generated through the development of energy, forestry, agricultural or other related projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to a baseline.

«Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc. account for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector.»

-- Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Secretary shall establish an independent advisory committee, to be known as the «USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gasGas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee», to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agricultural and forestry practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gasgas emissions, or sequester greenhouse gases.

«(A) submit to the Secretary and make available to the public an analysis of relevant scientific and technical information regarding agricultural and forestry offset practices that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases;

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary shall prepare and publish in the Federal Register a list of domestic agricultural and forestry practice types that are eligible to generate offset credits under this title because the practices avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases.

«(A) development and demonstration of practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester carbon in agricultural operations where there are limited recognized opportunities to achieve such emissions reductions or sequestration; and

In 2010, N2O emissions from agricultural soil management in the U.S. were approximately 208 million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent according to the Environmental Protection Agency's 2012 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

The use of nitrogen fertilizers is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland's agricultural sector.

Consequently, the most advanced climate models now require, in addition to concentrations or emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O and halocarbons), emissions of reactive gases and aerosol precursor compounds (SO2, NOx, VOC, BC, OC and NH3), to model atmospheric chemistry and interactions with the climate system.6 For most variables, a sectoral differentiation would improve the quality of the calculations (e.g. from power plants and agricultural burning).

Applying organic fertilizers, such as those resulting from composting, to agricultural land could increase the amount of carbon stored in these soils and contribute significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,...

Serious, imminent, and irreversible damages to natural ecosystems, infrastructure, agricultural production, and human health make dramatic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions a key priority for communities around the world.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the Methane Reduction Plan, a suite of 25 actions to reduce methane emissions from the landfill, oil and gas, and agricultural sectors across the state.

Sources of methane emissions in the U.S. include the waste management and operations industry, the agricultural industry, as well as leaks and emissions from the oil and gas industry itself.