No-one says reducing emissions from the agriculture sector will be easy. But it must be done, or farmers will suffer the most.
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Agriculture is the dominant cause for the increasing N₂O concentrations. Emissions must be reduced if we hope to stabilise Earth's climate.
Measurements and modelling have found nitrous oxide emissions, a greenhouse gas 265 times more potent than carbon dioxide, are significantly higher than previously reported.
The New Zealand government's decision to partner the farming sector to encourage voluntary reductions in farm emissions failed to acknowledge that agricultural emissions also affect water quality.
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Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn University
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Senior scientist, Norwegian Institute for Air Research
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Research Group Leader, CSIRO
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Director, Appalachian Laboratory and Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Scientist, Dy. Group Leader, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Farm Systems Analysis), The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
