Spatial analysis of agricultural greenhouse gas emission at the municipality (LAU-2) level across Poland
Abstract
Poland is obliged to report annually the total of the country’s GHG emission in the form of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (NIR) to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The total emission comes from several sectors of the economy. One of the sectors is agriculture. In the presented work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methodology was adapted to estimate the spatial distribution of Polish agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emission at the municipality (LAU-2) level. The amount of methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emitted from agriculture in each of 2,173 municipalities was calculated. Then the results were converted to the amount of carbon dioxide equivalents, summed up, and the total agricultural emission in each municipality was obtained. In the calculations, the authors used available data on farm resources, farming and land cover characteristics collected through the National Agricultural Census conducted in 2010 by the Central Statistical Office of Poland (GUS) aggregated at the LAU-2 level. The results were mapped and the spatial distribution of GHG emitted from agriculture at the LAU-2 level was obtained for the fi rst time for Poland. Selected regions with a high GHG emission are Podlasie and Wielkopolska. The high emission in these regions is associated with high livestock and crop production.
Keywords
spatial distribution; GHG; GWP; agriculture; UNFCCC; IPCC
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Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7172-0529
Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8861-803X
