Friday, October 09, 2020

Global food production poses an increasing climate threat


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/iifa-gfp100520.php


News Release 7-Oct-2020
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

According to the authors of a new study published in Nature, rising nitrous oxide emissions are putting reaching climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy.

The growing use of nitrogen fertilizers in the production of food worldwide is increasing concentrations of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere--a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide and which remains in the atmosphere longer than a human lifetime.


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