Wednesday 3rd May 2017, 12:00pm
Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) researchers are co-investigators on a new £8.6 m research programme to investigate ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to counteract global warming.
Staff from both the Land Economy, Environment and Society and Future
Farming Systems research groups are involved in the recently awarded
National Environment Research Council (NERC) project led by Aberdeen
University.
The project - known as Soils-R-GRREAT; Soils research to deliver greenhouse gas removals and abatement technologies - is part of a major new research program to investigate the potential of negative greenhouse gas emissions technologies.
SRUC’s input will mainly be addressing the economic potential of soils as a greenhouse gas mitigation measure.
Soils-R-GRREAT will analyse the global potential for soil-based greenhouse gas removal, and how this varies by practice and region.
This will include investigating the economic social, cultural and ecological impacts; current policies that prevent implementation; and future policies that may enable wider adoption, managing risks, and integration with other greenhouse gas removal approaches.
SRUC's input will mainly be addressing the economic potential of soils as a greenhouse gas mitigation measure.
The project will run for three years with other partners from Edinburgh, Cranfield and Newcastle Universities, James Hutton Institute and CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
"SRUC's involvement in this project reflects our strengths in interdisciplinary science on climate change and the land based sector."
"In particular our input builds on a decade of policy driven research focussing on the economics of greenhouse gas reduction in agricultural production and food consumption."
Source: Scotland's Rural College
Roslin Innovation Centre
The University of Edinburgh
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian EH25 9RG
