GHG Mitigation Potential and Cost in Tropical Forestry — Relative Role for Agroforestry

Shelterbelts have been planted around the world for many reasons. Recently, due to increasing awareness of climate change risks, shelterbelt agroforestry systems have received special attention because of the environmental services they provide, including their greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential. This paper aims to discuss shelterbelt history in Canada, and the environmental benefits they provide, focusing on carbon sequestration potential, above- and below-ground. Shelterbelt establishment in Canada dates back to more than a century ago, when their main use was protecting the soil, farm infrastructure and livestock from the elements. As minimal-and no-till systems have become more prevalent among agricultural producers, soil has been less exposed and less vulnerable to wind erosion, so the practice of planting and maintaining shelterbelts has declined in recent decades. In addition, as farm equipment has grown in size to meet the demands of larger landowners, shelterbelts are being removed to increase efficiency and machine maneuverability in the field. This trend of shelterbelt removal prevents shelterbelt’s climate change mitigation potential to be fully achieved. For example, in the last century, shelterbelts have sequestered 4.85 Tg C in Saskatchewan. To increase our understanding of carbon sequestration by shelterbelts, in 2013, the Government of Canada launched the Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program (AGGP). In five years, 27 million dollars were spent supporting technologies and practices to mitigate GHG release on agricultural land, including understanding shelterbelt carbon sequestration and to encourage planting on farms. All these topics are further explained in this paper as an attempt to inform and promote shelterbelts as a climate change mitigation tool on agricultural lands.

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GHG mitigation potential of solar industrial process heating in producing cotton based textiles in India

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.161 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 145 ◽

pp. 74-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Ashish K. Sharma ◽

Chandan Sharma ◽

Subhash C. Mullick ◽

Tara C. Kandpal

Keyword(s):

Industrial Process ◽

Ghg Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Potential ◽

Process Heating

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Evaluating the GHG mitigation-potential of alternate wetting and drying in rice through life cycle assessment

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.327 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 653 ◽

pp. 1343-1353 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Cara Fertitta-Roberts ◽

Patricia Y. Oikawa ◽

G. Darrel Jenerette

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Ghg Mitigation ◽

Wetting And Drying ◽

Mitigation Potential ◽

Alternate Wetting And Drying

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The carbon footprint of UK sheep production: current knowledge and opportunities for reduction in temperate zones

The Journal of Agricultural Science ◽

10.1017/s0021859613000245 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 152 (2) ◽

pp. 288-308 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

A. K. JONES ◽

D. L. JONES ◽

P. CROSS

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

Mitigation Strategy ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Nitrogen Excretion ◽

Ghg Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Potential ◽

Farm Level ◽

Targeted Interventions ◽

Sheep Production

SUMMARYLivestock production is a significant source of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions globally. In any sheep-producing nation, an effective agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy must include sheep-targeted interventions. The most prominent interventions suited to sheep systems are reviewed in the current paper, with a focus on farm-level enteric CH4and soil N2O emissions. A small number of currently available interventions emerge which have broad consensus on their mitigation potential. These include breeding to increase lambing percentages and diet formulation to minimize nitrogen excretion. The majority of interventions still require significant research and development before deployment. Research into the efficacy of interventions such as incorporation of biochar is in its infancy, while for others such as dietary supplements, successes in isolated studies now need to be replicated in long-term field trials under a range of conditions. Enhancing understanding of underlying biological processes will allow capitalization of interventions such as vaccination against rumen methanogenesis and pasture drainage. Many interventions cannot be recommended at a regional or national scale because, either, their mitigation potential is inextricably linked to soil and weather conditions in the locality of use, or their use is restricted to more intensive, closely managed systems. Distilling the long list of interventions to produce an effective farm-level mitigation strategy must involve: accounting for all GHG fluxes and interactions, identifying complimentary sets of additive interventions, and accounting for baseline emissions and current practice. Tools such as whole farm GHG models and marginal abatement cost curves are crucial in the development of tailored, practical sheep farm GHG mitigation strategies.

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Defects Impact on PV System GHG Mitigation Potential and Climate Change

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13147793 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 7793

Author(s):

Waqas Ahmed ◽

Jamil Ahmed Sheikh ◽

Shahjadi Hisan Farjana ◽

M. A. Parvez Mahmud

Keyword(s):

Green Energy ◽

Energy Yield ◽

Solar Photovoltaic ◽

Energy Potential ◽

Pv System ◽

Time Duration ◽

Ghg Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Potential ◽

Pv Systems ◽

Pv Panel

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely used to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHG), due to their green renewable nature. However, environmental factors such as bird drops, shade, pollution, etc., accommodation on PV panels surface reduce photons transmission to PV cells, which results in lower energy yield and GHG mitigation potential of PV system. In this study, the PV system’s energy and GHG mitigation potential loss is investigated under environmental stresses. Defects/hotspots caused by the environment on PV panel surface have unknown occurrence frequency, time duration, and intensity and are highly variable from location to location. Therefore, different concentrations of defects are induced in a healthy 12 kWp PV system. Healthy PV system has the potential to avoid the burning of 3427.65 L of gasoline by 16,157.9 kWh green energy production per annum. However, in 1% and 20% defective systems, green energy potential reduces to 15,974.3 and 12,485.6 kWh per annum, respectively. It is equivalent to lesser evasion burning of 3388.70, and 2648.64 L of gasoline, respectively. A timely solution to defective panels can prevent losses in the PV system to ensure optimal performance.

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GHG Mitigation Potential and Cost in Tropical Forestry — Relative Role for Agroforestry