This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at https://ari.org.uk/ by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.
What are the real-world barriers that prevent land-users (for example farmers) taking up low/negative carbon measures, and how can these be overcome? How can we improve the estimation and validation of take up for these practices?
To limit future warming requires rapid reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving net zero by 2050, as required by UK legislation. Climate mitigation is led in government by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). But Defra is responsible for efforts to reduce GHG emissions from four sectors: agriculture, waste and wastewater, land-use, and fluorinated gases (F-gases). Defra also has responsibility to promote forestry, which acts as a carbon sink. Together, the four Defra sectors represent 15% of the total net UK GHGs, with agriculture being the biggest contributor (about 10% of UK emissions).
Defra has research interests in reduction of emissions, the removal of GHG from the atmosphere, and in understanding the impacts of mitigation activities on other environmental outcomes.
Contact details
ari.comment@go-science.gov.uk
Related UKRI Projects
- Land Use for Net Zero Hub
- What are the impacts of agricultural soil and crop management on greenhouse gas fluxes? - Informing post Brexit agricultural subsidy policy
- Greenhouse Gas Removal in the Land Sector - Addressing the Gaps (GGRiLS - Gaps)
- Climate Solutions Exchange Ltd
- Greenhouse gas mitigation from Chinese agriculture (technical potential, economic efficiency and equity impacts)
- Agroforestry Futures
- A practical tool and robust framework for evaluating greenhouse gas emissions from land-based activities
- Agroforestry Futures
- Agroforestry Futures
- Managing land for carbon in southern Africa: relationships between carbon, livelihoods and ecosystem services