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Article: United Nations Identifies Agriculture as a Solution to Soaring CO2 Emissions - Approves First Agricultural CDM Methodology.
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- The Business of Global Warming
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
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The United Nations, at its June meeting, gave approval for the broad application of the first agricultural methodology for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
"The UN's decision highlights how agriculture can provide solutions to climate change issues while feeding a growing world population," said Peg Armstrong-Gustafson, owner and founder, Amson Technology, LC, of Des Moines, Iowa, which, together with Becker Underwood, Inc., of Ames, Iowa, and Perspectives GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, is responsible for the agricultural methodology used to design projects that eliminate the use of synthetic nitrogen on legumes like ...