Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands

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第一作者： Gu, Baojing

作者： Gu, Baojing;Wang, Sitong;Duan, Jiakun;Xu, Jianming;Gu, Baojing;Wang, Sitong;Duan, Jiakun;Ren, Chenchen;Zhang, Xiuming;Lam, Shu Kee;Chen, Deli;Yu, Yingliang;van Grinsven, Hans J. M.;Bouwman, Lex;Zhang, Shaohui;Zhang, Shaohui;Wang, Xiaoxi;Wang, Xiaoxi;Wang, Xiaoxi;Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon;Bouwman, Lex;de Vries, Wim;Xu, Jianming;Sutton, Mark A.

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期刊名称：NATURE （ 影响因子：64.8； 五年影响因子：60.9 ）

ISSN： 0028-0836

年卷期： 2023 年 613 卷 7942 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Cropland is a main source of global nitrogen pollution(1,2). Mitigating nitrogen pollution from global croplands is a grand challenge because of the nature of non point-source pollution from millions of farms and the constraints to implementing pollution-reduction measures, such as lack of financial resources and limited nitrogen management knowledge of farmers3. Here we synthesize 1,521 field observations worldwide and identify 11 key measures that can reduce nitrogen losses from croplands to air and water by 30-70%, while increasing crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) by 10-30% and 10-80%, respectively. Overall, adoption of this package of measures on global croplands would allow the production of 17 +/- 3 Tg (10(12) g) more crop nitrogen (20% increase) with 22 +/- 4 Tg less nitrogen fertilizer used (21% reduction) and 26 +/- 5 Tg less nitrogen pollution (32% reduction) to the environment for the considered base year of 2015. These changes could gain a global societal benefit of 476 +/- 123 billion US dollars (USD) for food supply, human health, ecosystems and climate, with net mitigation costs of only 19 +/- 5 billion USD, of which 15 +/- 4 billion USD fertilizer saving offsets 44% of the gross mitigation cost. To mitigate nitrogen pollution from croplands in the future, innovative policies such as a nitrogen credit system (NCS) could be implemented to select, incentivize and, where necessary, subsidize the adoption of these measures.

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