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Synthesis and Review: Advancing Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Quantification

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Title Synthesis and Review: Advancing Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Quantification
 
Creator Olander, L
Wollenberg, Eva K.
Tubiello, F.N.
Herold, Martin
 
Subject agriculture
climate
assessment
greenhouse gases
research
emission reduction
quantitative analysis
 
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.
 
Date 2014-07-01
2014-11-20T10:22:46Z
2014-11-20T10:22:46Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Olander LP, Wollenberg E, Tubiello FN, Herold M. 2014. Synthesis and Review: Advancing Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Quantification. Environmental Rsearch Letters 9(7):075003
1748-9326
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/51585
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075003
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-3.0
Open Access
 
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Publisher IOP Publishing
 
Source Environmental Research Letters