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Carbon Management Centre
Overview
Dr Bob Rees
Carbon Management Centre
• Established April 2011
• To develop research education and advice on carbon
management in the rural economy
• Contributing to SG policy led Centre of
Expertise on Climate Change
• National research programme to improve
inventory reporting and mitigation
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Carbon Management Centre
Customers of the SRUC Carbon
Management Centre
Services / Activities
Research and scientific communities
Policy makers
National Inventory Reporting of Emissions,
Mitigation through Land Management and
Land Use Change
Consultancy services to rural businesses
• Appraisal/Improvement of technical and
economic performance of enterprises
• Agri-carb (carbon calculator) and
associated services
Education and training
Integrating the theory and practice of carbon
management across the SRUC curriculum
National and International
collaborations
Involvement with the Global Research
Alliance and Joint Programming Initiative on
Agriculture Food Security and Climate
Change
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Greencow
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Controlled environmental animal housing, allowing full
greenhouse gas measurements
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Feeding station samplers allowing
larger scale sampling
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Linked to genetic screening
programmes and field scale
measurements
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Improving N2O inventory
UK IPCC
Specific
TierTier
1 N3
2Dynamics
N Dynamics
Model
Model
International
Reporting
National
Reporting
1%
10%
fn
Inventory
{N type, Soil temp}
N2 O
NH
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EF
f
Volatilisation
DevelopmentDeposited
Emissions
Deposition
programme will
Soil Temperature
N Type
improve
30%
28%
fn
2.5%
{Soil type}
structure and
f
Model
EFLeachate Emissions
Leached
N Leached
refine Emissions
Soil Type
N Type
Factors via plot
0.8%
1.25%
fn
{N type, SMC, pH}
to field scale
N/Manure
EFDirect
measurements
Applied
Soil Moisture Content
Soil pH
The current inventory structure is ‘bottom up’. Data from national surveys are multiplied
by default IPCC emission factors based on international literature review. At present
there is little in the way of external validation of the estimated emissions.
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Nitrous oxide
platform experiments
Adas, AFBI,
Rothamsted , SRUC
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Greenhouse gas emissions
DNDC etc.
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Knowledge Exchange
• Demonstration farms and experiments
• Farming for a better climate
• SAC Consultancy
- Environmental
- Carbon footprinting
management
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SRUC Carbon Footprinting
Supply chain projects 2011
- potatoes, poultry, vegetables, beef, sheep
Agri-CARB (Carbon And Resource Benchmarking)
- Tailored farm level efficiency service
- Identifies top 5 cost and carbon savings
- Develop packaged FRBS service
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Renewables on Farm
SAC Consulting and
CES commissioned
by SG to investigate
feasibility of Community
Renewables Loan Fund
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Renewable Energy
• Independent, impartial advice to farmers, landowners and developers
• New staff and new skills across all technologies Wind, Hydro, Solar, Biomass, AD
• Supported development of
Defra/DECC AD strategy
• Cuban Biomass Feasibility
Study
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Farming for a Better Climate
• SRUC demonstrating
how farmers can
reduce emissions and
benefit
the farm business
• Working with 4
‘climate change
focus farmers’
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Farming for a Better Climate:
5 Action Areas
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Education
• Undergraduate
• Masters
– Environmental Protection and
Management
– Ecological Economics
– Food Security
• Research postgraduate
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