Accessibility Statement Skip Navigation
  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing
  • Login
  • GDPR
  • Create a Free Account
Return to PRWeb homepage
  • News
  • Resources
  • Contact
When typing in this field, a list of search results will appear and be automatically updated as you type.

Searching for your content...

No results found. Please change your search terms and try again.
  • News in Focus
      • Browse News Releases

      • All News Releases
      • Multimedia Gallery

      • All Multimedia
      • All Photos
      • All Videos
  • Business & Money
      • Auto & Transportation

      • Aerospace, Defense
      • Air Freight
      • Airlines & Aviation
      • Automotive
      • Maritime & Shipbuilding
      • Railroads and Intermodal Transportation
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Transportation, Trucking & Railroad
      • Travel
      • Trucking and Road Transportation
      • View All Auto & Transportation

      • Business Technology

      • Blockchain
      • Broadcast Tech
      • Computer & Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Components
      • Electronic Design Automation
      • Financial Technology
      • High Tech Security
      • Internet Technology
      • Nanotechnology
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Semiconductors
      • View All Business Technology

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Financial Services & Investing

      • Accounting News & Issues
      • Acquisitions, Mergers and Takeovers
      • Banking & Financial Services
      • Bankruptcy
      • Bond & Stock Ratings
      • Conference Call Announcements
      • Contracts
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Dividends
      • Earnings
      • Earnings Forecasts & Projections
      • Financing Agreements
      • Insurance
      • Investments Opinions
      • Joint Ventures
      • Mutual Funds
      • Private Placement
      • Real Estate
      • Restructuring & Recapitalization
      • Sales Reports
      • Shareholder Activism
      • Shareholder Meetings
      • Stock Offering
      • Stock Split
      • Venture Capital
      • View All Financial Services & Investing

      • General Business

      • Awards
      • Commercial Real Estate
      • Corporate Expansion
      • Earnings
      • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
      • Human Resource & Workforce Management
      • Licensing
      • New Products & Services
      • Obituaries
      • Outsourcing Businesses
      • Overseas Real Estate (non-US)
      • Personnel Announcements
      • Real Estate Transactions
      • Residential Real Estate
      • Small Business Services
      • Socially Responsible Investing
      • Surveys, Polls and Research
      • Trade Show News
      • View All General Business

  • Science & Tech
      • Consumer Technology

      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Blockchain
      • Cloud Computing/Internet of Things
      • Computer Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Consumer Electronics
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Gaming
      • Financial Technology
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Multimedia & Internet
      • Peripherals
      • Social Media
      • STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math)
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Consumer Technology

      • Energy & Natural Resources

      • Alternative Energies
      • Chemical
      • Electrical Utilities
      • Gas
      • General Manufacturing
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Oil & Energy
      • Oil and Gas Discoveries
      • Utilities
      • Water Utilities
      • View All Energy & Natural Resources

      • Environ­ment

      • Conservation & Recycling
      • Environmental Issues
      • Environmental Policy
      • Environmental Products & Services
      • Green Technology
      • Natural Disasters
      • View All Environ­ment

      • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Aerospace & Defense
      • Agriculture
      • Chemical
      • Construction & Building
      • General Manufacturing
      • HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning)
      • Machinery
      • Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Paper, Forest Products & Containers
      • Precious Metals
      • Textiles
      • Tobacco
      • View All Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Telecomm­unications

      • Carriers and Services
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Telecommunications Equipment
      • Telecommunications Industry
      • VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Telecomm­unications

  • Lifestyle & Health
      • Consumer Products & Retail

      • Animals & Pets
      • Beers, Wines and Spirits
      • Beverages
      • Bridal Services
      • Cannabis
      • Cosmetics and Personal Care
      • Fashion
      • Food & Beverages
      • Furniture and Furnishings
      • Home Improvement
      • Household, Consumer & Cosmetics
      • Household Products
      • Jewelry
      • Non-Alcoholic Beverages
      • Office Products
      • Organic Food
      • Product Recalls
      • Restaurants
      • Retail
      • Supermarkets
      • Toys
      • View All Consumer Products & Retail

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Health

      • Biometrics
      • Biotechnology
      • Clinical Trials & Medical Discoveries
      • Dentistry
      • FDA Approval
      • Fitness/Wellness
      • Health Care & Hospitals
      • Health Insurance
      • Infection Control
      • International Medical Approval
      • Medical Equipment
      • Medical Pharmaceuticals
      • Mental Health
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Supplementary Medicine
      • View All Health

      • Sports

      • General Sports
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Sporting Events
      • Sports Equipment & Accessories
      • View All Sports

      • Travel

      • Amusement Parks and Tourist Attractions
      • Gambling & Casinos
      • Hotels and Resorts
      • Leisure & Tourism
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Passenger Aviation
      • Travel Industry
      • View All Travel

  • Policy & Public Interest
      • Policy & Public Interest

      • Advocacy Group Opinion
      • Animal Welfare
      • Congressional & Presidential Campaigns
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Domestic Policy
      • Economic News, Trends, Analysis
      • Education
      • Environmental
      • European Government
      • FDA Approval
      • Federal and State Legislation
      • Federal Executive Branch & Agency
      • Foreign Policy & International Affairs
      • Homeland Security
      • Labor & Union
      • Legal Issues
      • Natural Disasters
      • Not For Profit
      • Patent Law
      • Public Safety
      • Trade Policy
      • U.S. State Policy
      • View All Policy & Public Interest

  • People & Culture
      • People & Culture

      • Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American
      • African American
      • Asian American
      • Children
      • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
      • Hispanic
      • Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
      • Men's Interest
      • People with Disabilities
      • Religion
      • Senior Citizens
      • Veterans
      • Women
      • View All People & Culture

  • Hamburger menu
  • Cision PRWeb provides efficient communication tools to continuously engage with target audiences across multiple online channels
  • Create a Free Account
    • ALL CONTACT INFO
    • Contact Us


      11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday

  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • News in Focus
    • Browse All News
    • Multimedia Gallery
  • Business & Money
    • Auto & Transportation
    • Business Technology
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Financial Services & Investing
    • General Business
  • Science & Tech
    • Consumer Technology
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Environ­ment
    • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing
    • Telecomm­unications
  • Lifestyle & Health
    • Consumer Products & Retail
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Health
    • Sports
    • Travel
  • Policy & Public Interest
  • People & Culture
    • People & Culture
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR

The Climate Trust Releases Assessment on Crediting Farmers for Nutrient Stewardship
  • USA - English


News provided by

The Climate Trust

Oct 28, 2015, 05:00 ET

Share this article

Share toX

Share this article

Share toX

Image credit: Flickr/Vincent Lit
Image credit: Flickr/Vincent Lit

PORTLAND, Ore. (PRWEB) October 28, 2015 -- A year-long assessment of the potential to create a scalable nutrient management program for farmers—and commercialize the resulting carbon credits—finds that there is enormous potential to incentivize changes in nitrogen fertilizer application practices on cropland. The report, supported by Carbon Credit Solutions and Jarecki Enviro Consulting, and prepared by Portland-based nonprofit The Climate Trust, provides a roadmap to minimize the risk of investment in nutrient management, and the successful large-scale adoption of nutrient stewardship.

With the right roadmap, agriculture itself may become a change agent capable of reducing global emissions.

Post this

Addressing emissions from agriculture is imperative. The vast majority of this sector’s emissions can be traced to two powerful greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide (N20), the latter of which can occur within the soils nitrogen cycle following nitrogen applications, and has a global warming potential 280 times that of carbon dioxide. This report focuses on N20, and the ways in which carbon markets may help to incentivize practice changes in the fertilization of crops that can reduce these emissions.

In 2011, a coalition of partners including The Climate Trust and The Fertilizer Institute, undertook work on a Conservation Innovation Grant provided by USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. The goal of this project was to incentivize corn and soy growers in the Midwest to adopt best management practices for the application of nitrogen fertilizers. The project culminated in a comprehensive report in the summer of 2014. An extension of this initial work was undertaken by The Climate Trust; producing a new report, “Promoting Increased Nutrient Use Efficiency Through Carbon Markets.”

The report has two major components. Part 1, the Protocol Road Test Report, examines credit generation potential from four existing nutrient management credit generation methodologies. Part 2, the Credit Generation and Commercialization Report, explores common barriers to nutrient crediting and provides recommendations for how some of those barriers might be overcome.

As a conservative estimate, nutrient management techniques identified in this report could generate 770,000 to 2.7 million offsets—the equivalent of taking 162,000-568,000 cars off the road each year. There is also the potential for many more nutrient management offsets from additional acreage, crops and regions. However, initial study findings also showed that given current barriers, a fully-scaled nutrient crediting sector is likely a longer term proposition (within the next 5-10 years), unless successful pilot projects can demonstrate low-risk to potential buyers; considerably shortening the timeline.

“The Climate Trust was pleased to be able to help lead this important work and begin unlocking the huge potential for nutrient management credits in the U.S.,” said lead author Elizabeth Hardee, senior analyst for The Climate Trust. “By capitalizing on the economic benefits offered through carbon credits, farmers will be able to address the growing threat that greenhouse gas emissions pose to their operations—in the form of drought and flooding. With the right roadmap, agriculture itself may become a change agent capable of reducing global emissions.”

The Climate Trust’s commitment to this research is tied to their belief that nutrient management projects hold the potential for large greenhouse gas benefits, and can play a crucial role in slowing or reversing the acceleration of climate change. Carbon markets exist to facilitate the development of these types of projects; placing a monetary value on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

The United Nations has named 2015 the International Year of Soils, with good reason. Producing enough food to feed a worldwide population over seven billion strong requires massive resources for agriculture—a system which contributes roughly 14% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, recently surpassed deforestation as the world’s largest land-based source of climate pollutants, and from which emissions are still increasing.

The Fertilizer Institute worked in coordination with The Climate Trust to extend the initial project’s efforts. Grower adoption of fertilizer application best management practices through 4R Nutrient Stewardship are key for agriculture.

“By creating innovative incentives that encourage farmers to adopt responsible nutrient management practices, we can make a big environmental impact,” said Lara Moody, senior director, stewardship and sustainability for The Fertilizer Institute. “Utilizing best management practices provides a wealth of benefits including water quality protection and an improved bottom line for farms.”

“The opportunity to engage in this emerging sector and help provide a path for nutrient management to enter the carbon markets has been a worthwhile undertaking and a journey we’re excited to continue,” said Sean Penrith, executive director for The Climate Trust.

Read on for the full report findings.

###

The Climate Trust mobilizes conservation finance to maximize environmental returns. Building upon a legacy of innovation and leadership in the carbon market, The Climate Trust accelerates the pace of carbon mitigation through conservation finance. We value air, water and soil through the development, purchase and sale of qualified offsets and a relentless investment in people and projects with environmental purpose | http://www.climatetrust.org | @climatetrust | facebook.com/TheClimateTrust

The Fertilizer Institute is the leading voice in the fertilizer industry, representing the public policy, communication and statistical needs of over 200 producer, manufacturer, retailer and transporter members in the fertilizer sector. TFI has been at the forefront of improving environmental performance in agriculture through improved nitrogen management. It is a leading advocate of the 4Rs (i.e. the right source, at the right rate, at the right time and in the right place). TFI works closely with producers, agronomic service providers, the fertilizer industry, and federal, state and local authorities to promote improved agricultural land stewardship.

Kassandra Krifka, The Climate Trust, http://www.climatetrust.org, +1 5032381915 Ext: 211, [email protected]

Modal title

Contact PRWeb

  • 11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday
  • Contact Us

About PRWeb

  • About PRWeb
  • Partners
  • Partnership Programs
  • Editorial Guidelines
  • Resources

Why PRWeb

  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing

Accounts

  • Create a Free Account
  • Log in
  • Contact Us

Do not sell or share my personal information:

  • Submit via [email protected] 
  • Call Privacy toll-free: 877-297-8921

Contact Cision

Products

About

My Services
  • All News Releases
  • Online Member Center
  • ProfNet
Cision Distribution Helpline
888-776-0942
  • Legal
  • Site Map
  • RSS
  • Cookie Settings
Copyright © 2025 Cision US Inc.