LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY MANURE MANAGEMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CARBON NEUTRALITY IN CHINA

Highlights

● Carbon reduction potential of manure treatment technologies was summarized.

● Accounting methodologies of carbon emission and footprint of manure were analyzed.

● The quote of carbon trading market at home and abroad was analyzed.

● Some points for the boost of potential of manure carbon trading were advised.

Abstract

The rapid growth of the livestock and poultry production in China has led to a rise in manure generation, which contributes to the emissions of GHGs (greenhouse gases including CH₄, N₂O and CO₂) and other harmful gases (NH₃, H₂S). Reducing and managing carbon emissions has become a critical global environmental imperative due to the adverse impacts of GHGs. Unlike previous reviews that focused on resource recovery, this work provides an unique insight of transformation from resource-oriented manure treatment to integration of resource recovery with pollution reduction, carbon accounting and trading, focusing on the sustainable development of manure management system. Considering the importance of accounting methodologies for carbon emission and trading system toward carbon neutrality society, suggestions and strategies including attaching high importance to the development of more accuracy accounting methodologies and more practical GHG emission reduction methodologies are given in this paper. This work directs the establishment of carbon reduction methodologies and the formulation of governmental policies for livestock and poultry manure management system in China.

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Keywords

valorization of animal manure / manure management / carbon emission / carbon footprint / methodology / carbon trading

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Acknowledgements

This work acknowledges the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U21A20162; 52261145701).

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Leli Zhang, Reaihan E, Mahmoud M. Ali, Hongjian Lin, Shuai Zhang, Shuqin Jin, Zhiping Zhu, Jianjun Hu, Yiqing Yao, Yong Sun, Shuiping Yan, and Zhidan Liu declare that they have no conflicts of interest or financial conflicts to disclose. This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

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