Online workshop, 16th April 16h00- 18h00 CET.
How does use of P fertilisers in the field impact climate emissions, e.g. via eutrophication effects or mitigation, crop carbon and soil carbon cycling. Online workshop will input to the Low Carbon Roadmap for the phosphate industry (see ESPP eNews n.103). Nitrogen fertilisers’ climate emissions impacts are widely investigated, but do phosphate fertilisers have significant indirect greenhouse impacts? Are these positive (increased carbon fixation by crops or in soil, or in surface waters due to runoff …) or negative (methane emissions related to eutrophication)? Discussion and conclusions will input into the Low Carbon Roadmap for phosphate fertilisers, under development by ERM consultants, supported by Systemiq consultants, for EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and IFA (International Fertilizer industry Association), to be presented at the IFA Cultivating Tomorrow Conference (June 2026).
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Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/climate-emissions-from-phosphate-fertiliser-use-tickets-1982270566626?aff=oddtdtcreator
Outline programme
1. Introduction to the roadmap - IFA and ERM
2. Joint EU – Moroccan Efforts to Decabonise Phosphate Processing - Ludwig Hermann, Proman & ESPP
3. Greenhous gas emissions as a function of P fertilization in the US Corn Belt: preliminary evidence of direct and indirect effects - Andrew Margenot, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4. Impact of phosphorus loading on methane emissions from lakes - Peter Raymond, Yale School of the Environment and Pierre Regnier, Université libre de Bruxelles