Carbon Cycles and Sinks
The purpose of the Carbon Cycles and Sinks project is to develop policies which will enable the Irish land mass to become a carbon sink rather than a source of greenhouse emissions. This project is led by Richard Douthwaite, and Corinna Byrne is project coordinator and lead researcher.
The core areas being examined by the CCSN include:
1. The best management practices and technologies to reduce or eliminate the release of greenhouse gas emissions from damaged peat bogs.
2. The best management practices to increase the carbon content of forests, hedgerows, scrub, arable and pasture land.
3. The best management practices and technologies to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer use and the development of policies to substantially reduce nitrous oxides and other gases from tillage land and to reward farmers for using these new practises.
4. Study of the greenhouse gas emissions from slurry storage and ways of reducing them by adopting technologies such as anaerobic digestion to capture methane for energy and organic fertilizer.
5. The best ways of measuring soil carbon, establishing a baseline for later comparison with various agricultural practices or additions of amendments such as compost, biochar and/or microbial inoculations.
Read more about this topic: Foundation For The Economics Of Sustainability
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