{"id":11568,"date":"2020-11-13T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:19","slug":"nitrogen-fertilizers-are-jeopardizing-agricultural-climate-goals-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/13\/nitrogen-fertilizers-are-jeopardizing-agricultural-climate-goals-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitrogen fertilizers are jeopardizing agricultural climate goals, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The expanding use of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture is pushing nitrous oxide emissions to levels that jeopardize climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2780-0\">new study<\/a>&nbsp;published in Nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitrous oxide \u2014 a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide \u2014 remains in the atmosphere longer than a human lifetime. Its use has risen 20 percent from pre-industrial levels and accelerated in recent decades, with alarming implications for climate change, researchers found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The dominant driver of the increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide comes from agriculture, and the growing demand for food and feed for animals will further increase global nitrous oxide emissions,&#8221; explains study lead author Hanqin Tian, director of the International Center for Climate and Global Change Research at Auburn University in Alabama. &#8220;There is a conflict between the way we are feeding people and stabilizing the climate.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/nitrogen-fertilizers-are-jeopardizing-agricultural-climate-goals-new-study-finds\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expanding use of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture is pushing nitrous oxide emissions to levels that jeopardize climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement, according to a&nbsp;new study&nbsp;published&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}