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[Audio] Course Name: Carbon footprint in agriculture Duration of the course (in Mins) – 60mins Section 1: Introduction Section 2: What is carbon footprint? Section 3: Why should we care about carbon footprint? Section 4: Economic sectors responsible for carbon footprint Section 5: Measurement of carbon footprint Section 6: Sources of carbon footprint in agriculture Section 7: Reduction of carbon footprints section 8: Carbon offsets Section 9: Carbon farming: A technique adopted to reduce carbon footprint in agriculture Section 10: Carbon credits Section 11: Carbon credits and carbon markets Section 12: Carbon trading in India.

[Audio] Your Drinking Water Has a High Carbon Footprint!.

[Audio] Human beings are the ultimate drivers of climatic change as they're responsible for the release of greenhouse gases. The human lifestyle, consumption and economic needs bring the above statement into action, yet we're not properly aware of it. Therefore, this course is designed to create a sane sense of carbon footprints and their role in agriculture..

[Audio] What is carbon footprint ? A carbon footprint relates to the entire measure of greenhouse gases ( GHG) delivered to support an individual's way of life and exercises. Carbon footprints are typically estimated in equivalent tons of CO2 during the time of a year, and they can be related to an individual, an association, or a product The GHGs whose total outcomes in a carbon footprint can emerge from creating and utilising fossil fuels, food, manufactured goods, materials, roads or transportation According to WHO, "A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact your activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO2 emissions produced in tonnes".

[Audio] Why we should care about carbon footprint? The quickly increased aggregation of greenhouse gases by human movement in our atmosphere add-ons to global warming. The greater the carbon footprint of any movement, the more prominent the aggregate commitment to climate change. Hence, we as a whole put forth an individual yet cognizant attempt to reduce our carbon footprint, we can be a part of the answer for the environmental/ climate crisis..

[Audio] The economic sector responsible for carbon footprint emission Electricity and Heat production Industries Buildings Transportations Agriculture Others....

[Audio] Comparison of decade-wise global carbon footprint emission.

[Audio] Comparison of decade-wise global carbon footprint emission From the above mentioned chart we can infer that the carbon emissions in agriculture sector is reduced by almost 50%. Yet we can see that agriculture sector globally stands on the 2nd position for high rate of carbon footprint emission. We can make an idea from the data that, the carbon footprint can emerge from the creation and utilisation of non-renewable energy sources, food, produced products, materials, streets or transportation. Tragically, carbon impressions are hard to compute because of deficient information and short information regarding the intricate communications between contributing cycles – including the impact of natural cycles that store or deliver carbon dioxide..

[Audio] Measurement of Carbon footprint Carbon footprint never determined locally as it never estimated by the nearby emission of CO2. United Nations Framework Convention reports this on Climate Change. This relies upon emissions related to products brought into a country however are created somewhere else and, for the most part, consider emissions identified with worldwide vehicle and delivery, which isn't represented in standard public inventories. Accordingly, a country's carbon footprint can increment even as carbon emissions inside its boundaries decline..

[Audio] Sources of carbon footprint in agriculture Most agriculture-related carn footprint discharges come as methane ( CH4) and nitrous oxide ( N2O). Livestock releases(CH4) and the expansion of normal or manufactured composts and squanders to soils (N2O) addressing the biggest sources. More sources incorporate manure management, rice development, field consumption of harvest residues, and fuel use of farms. The overall size of various sources of carbon footprint will shift, generally relying upon the kind of items developed, cultivating rehearses utilised, and characteristic factors like climate, geology, and hydrology..

[Audio] Reduction of carbon footprints Agriculture is both a sufferer and a supporter of environmental/climatic change. Its contribution to carbon emission will undoubtedly increase because of an expansion in demand for food by a developing worldwide populace, the more grounded demand for dairy and meat items, and the heightening of agricultural practices. Hence, Carbon offsets and carbon farming are very pragmatic and powerful approaches to address environmental change and empower sustainable power development. Those approached also supports generation of carbon credits from agriculture..

[Audio] Carbon offset Carbon offsetting the activity or cycle of making up for carbon emissions emerging from mechanical or other human action by contributing to plans intended to make comparable carbon dioxide decreases in the air. There are emission reduction projects worldwide that produce carbon counterbalances from sustainable power, biogas and reforestation. Co-benefits of projects incorporate improved monetary, social and wellbeing for local communities..

[Audio] Carbon farming: A technique adopted to reduce carbon footprints from agriculture Carbon farming is an agricultural arrangement that aids the land storage with more GHGs than it discharges into the air, an interaction otherwise called carbon sequestration. In other terms, carbon sequestration can be described as the catch and long-term stockpiling of air carbon dioxide ( CO2) in soil that presents the best answer for balance the expansion of GHGs. This incorporates upgrading biomass creation, applying plant development controllers and bio-composts, agricultural conservation practices, nitrogen obsession by leguminous harvests, diminished pesticide use, crop rotation, and mixed crop-livestock production. Furthermore, animal feeding practices and manure management can reduce energy leakage and emissions. The agricultural conservation practices include no-till, utilisation of fertilizer and biochar..

[Audio] Carbon Credits A carbon credit is a permit that lets an organisation hold on to transmit a specific measure of carbon dioxide. One credit allows the emission of a mass equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide. The carbon credit is one portion of a purported "cap-and-exchange" program. Organisations should purchase carbon credits for overabundance emissions, while those beneath can sell their leftover credits. This trade of credits between organisations has supported carbon exchanging worldwide. These credits can be traded between organisations or purchased and sold in worldwide business sectors at the common market cost..

[Audio] Carbon Credits and the Kyoto protocol The Kyoto Protocol gives nations the test of decreasing greenhouse gases and putting away more carbon. A nation that thinks that its difficult to decrease GHG targets could pay another nation to lessen emissions by a proper amount. The carbon credit framework was sanctioned related to the Kyoto Protocol. For instance, if an environmentalist bunch plants enough trees to lessen emissions by one ton, the gathering will be granted a credit. On the off chance that a steel maker has an emissions quantity of 10 tons yet hopes to create 11 tons, it could buy this carbon credit from the environmental gathering. The carbon credit framework hopes to diminish emissions by having countries honor their emission standards and offer motivations for being beneath them. Basically, one carbon credit is comparable to one ton of carbon dioxide or its identical greenhouse gas ( GHG)..

[Audio] Types of Carbon Credits There are two sorts of carbon credits: Voluntary emissions reduction ( VER): A carbon balance traded in the ridiculous or intentional market for credits. Certified emissions reduction ( CER): Emission units (or credits) made through an administrative framework to counterbalance a venture's emissions. The major distinction between the two is an outsider affirming body ( third party) that directs the CER rather than the VER..

[Audio] Carbon credits and carbon market The carbon market is where the carbon credits and carbon certificates are acquired and sold, defined with characterised standards for preventing or dropping GHGs. Carbon credits can be exchanged on both private and public business sectors. Moreover, current principles of exchanging permit the international exchange of credits. The costs of credits are basically determined by the degrees of supply and demand in the business sectors. However, because of the distinctions in the supply and demand in various countries, the costs of the credits vacillate. In spite of the fact that carbon credits are helpful to society, it is difficult for a normal financial backer to utilize them as venture vehicles. This is on the grounds that the ensured emissions decreases (CERs) are the lone item utilized as credit investments. CERs are sold by extraordinary carbon funds set up by huge financial institutions. The carbon funds give little investors the chance to enter the market..

[Audio] Benefits of Carbon credits and carbon markets Since those cycles and components control many lands utilised for cultivating, farming or other agricultural services, many are extraordinarily positioned to benefit by taking part in the carbon markets. And those benefits include: Safeguarding of cultivating land ownership Idea promotion of land stewardship Greenhouse gas emissions decreases Advancement of soil wellbeing, biological variety, and water and air quality Additional revenue-generation opportunities from land.

[Audio] Carbon trading in India Indian industries could take advantage of the abrupt blast in the carbon market, making it a favoured area for carbon credit buyers. Normally, India will acquire at any rate $ 5 billion to $ 10 billion from carbon exchanging ( Rs 22,500 crore to Rs 45,000 crore) throughout some stretch of time. India is probably the biggest recipient of the absolute world carbon trade through the Clean Development Mechanism, asserting around 31% ( CDM). India's carbon market is one of the quickest developing business sectors worldwide and has effectively created roughly 30 million carbon credits, the second-most elevated executed volumes on the planet. The carbon exchanging market in India is becoming quicker than even data innovation, biotechnology and BPO areas. Almost 850 projects with a venture of Rs 650,000 million are in the pipeline. Carbon is likewise now being traded on India's Multi Commodity Exchange..