Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural sources in order to plan for needs of low carbon economy at local level in Poland

Wiśniewski, Paweł; Kistowski, Mariusz

doi:10.1080/00167223.2018.1436447

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“…For instance, Bell et al used the Scottish Government's new method to calculate agricultural carbon emissions and compared it with the IPCC guidelines and national communications [12]. Wisniewski and Kistowski proposed a solution that enables local governments to estimate independently the carbon footprints and monitor the impacts of actions taken to reduce emissions [13]. Moreover, based on the national statistics, Yue et al evaluated the carbon footprints of a range of 26 crop products and six livestock types [14].…”

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Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of the Driving Factors of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China

Chen

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Energies

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With the development of agricultural modernization, the carbon emissions caused by the agricultural sector have attracted academic and practitioners’ circles’ attention. This research selected the typical agricultural development province in China, Fujian, as the research object. Based on the carbon emission sources of five main aspects in agricultural production, this paper applied the latest carbon emission coefficients released by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the UN (IPCC) and World Resources Institute (WRI), then used the ordered weighted aggregation (OWA) operator to remeasure agricultural carbon emissions in Fujian from 2008–2017. The results showed that the amount of agricultural carbon emissions in Fujian was 5541.95 × 103 tonnes by 2017, which means the average amount of agricultural carbon emissions in 2017 was 615.78 × 103 tonnes, with a decrease of 13.13% compared with that in 2008. In terms of spatial distribution, agricultural carbon emissions in the eastern coastal areas were less than those in the inland regions. Among them, the highest agricultural carbon emissions were in Zhangzhou, Nanping, and Sanming, while the lowest were in Xiamen, Putian, and Ningde. In addition, this paper selected six influencing variables, the research and development intensity, the proportion of agricultural labor force, the added value of agriculture, the agricultural industrial structure, the per capita disposable income of rural residents, and per capita arable land area, to clarify further the impacts on agricultural carbon emissions. Finally, geographically- and temporally-weighted regression (GTWR) was used to measure the direction and degree of the influences of factors on agricultural carbon emission. The conclusion showed that the regression coefficients of each selected factor in cities were positive or negative, which indicated that the impacts on agricultural carbon emission had the characteristics of geospatial nonstationarity.

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Section: Measurement Of Agricultural Carbon Emissionsmentioning

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Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of the Driving Factors of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China

Chen

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Energies

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“…However, it should be taken into account that estimates of agricultural emissions are highly uncertain. In a study of 48 selected Polish communes (Wiśniewski and Kistowski, 2018), the uncertainty of emission value for the agricultural sector was determined to be at a level ± 38%, and the highest value of uncertainty in the agricultural sector occurred for N 2 O as a result of the high level of uncertainty in the emission factors for direct soil emissions. Wójcik-Gront and Gront (2014) estimated the level of uncertainty concerning agricultural emissions in Poland in 2011 using an alternative Monte Carlo analysis and compared it to the simplified method based on error propagation, currently used in Poland in the reports submitted under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol.…”

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Assessment of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils at local level in Poland

Wiśniewski

2019

Int. Agrophys.

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A b s tr act. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a very potent greenhouse gas whose concentration in the atmosphere is steadily increasing. Almost 80% of the annual N 2 O emissions in Poland originate from agriculture, and its main source is the use of agricultural soils. This study attempts to estimate the N 2 O emissions from agricultural soils and presents statistical analyses and spatial distributions for all Polish communes. For this purpose, a solution has been proposed which could be successfully applied by local government in order to assess N 2 O emissions, as well as to monitor the impact of actions undertaken to limit them. The annual N 2 O emissions from agricultural soils in Polish communes varies from 0.002 Mg N 2 O-N to 437.77 Mg N 2 O-N (with an average value of 21.13 Mg N 2 O-N and a standard deviation of 23.86 Mg N 2 O-N), and the cultivation of organic soils is its main source. The use of fertilizers and nitrogen fertilization with plant residues, as well as indirect emissions from nitrogen leaching, are also significant. The results may be used to provide a database for local governments, which will serve, not only to identify local emission sources related to agricultural soils, but also to properly plan and prioritize measures for its reduction.K ey w o r d s: nitrous oxide, emission, agricultural soils, communes, Poland

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“…In order to assess the volume of GHG emissions from agricultural sources, conducted for all communes in Poland, a simplified methodology was used, widely described in earlier works of the authors (Wiśniewski & Kistowski, 2018, 2019 and implemented in the Pilot programme of low carbon development of Starogard county in Pomeranian Voivodeship (Instytut na rzecz Ekorozwoju, 2015). The proposed solution is in line with the methodology and standard indicators of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2000(IPCC , 2006, and in order to obtain more accurate emissions data, the method takes into account the elements of national methodology and emission factors developed by the National Centre for Emission Management (KOBiZE) for the purposes of preparing annual inventory reports.…”

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“…It should be stressed, however, that agriculture in Poland is the source of 29.3% of national methane emissions and 78.6% of nitrous oxide emissions (KOBiZE 2019). According to the authors earlier research on the assessment of GHG emissions from agriculture at local level in Poland (Wiśniewski, 2018;Wiśniewski & Kistowski, 2018, 2019, the share of this sector in total GHG emissions is on average 8.9%, however, in some Polish communes amounts to as much 20-50%. There is, therefore, an urgent need to draw attention to the role and importance of agriculture and rural areas in the development of low carbon economy at the local level, and to identify activities in these areas, aiming at reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and improvement of the ability to absorb CO 2 , which can be broadly applied in the planning of low carbon development of communes.…”

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Regionalisation of needs to reduce GHG emission from agriculture in Poland

Kistowski¹,

Wiśniewski²

2020

Geogr. Pol.

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An important element in the local shaping of a low-carbon economy, as well as one of the key areas of activity in communal plans for its development should be rural areas and their related agricultural activities. This is due on the one hand to the significant share of agriculture in total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Poland (on average about 8%, locally as much as 20-50%), and on the other hand to the high potential of rural areas to use their resources to increase carbon sequestration in biomass and soil, reduce GHG emissions, as well as use agricultural activity for the development of renewable energy. The paper, based on the results of mathematical modelling of GHG emission from agricultural sources in all Polish communes, attempts to regionalize the needs of integrating agriculture and rural areas into the development of low-carbon economy at the local level. For this purpose, the guiding factors for regionalisation of the needs for mitigation actions were determined, and a regionalisation of these needs as well as a typology of the distinguished regions were, consequently, developed. The regions with the most urgent needs for mitigation actions were indicated, as well as the directions of mitigation actions for particular types of regions.

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Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural sources in order to plan for needs of low carbon economy at local level in Poland

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of the Driving Factors of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China

Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of the Driving Factors of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China

Assessment of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils at local level in Poland

Regionalisation of needs to reduce GHG emission from agriculture in Poland

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