Climate driver · Rationale

Nitrous oxide

Greenhouse gas emitted mainly from soils following nitrogen inputs and from manure management, with a high global warming potential and long atmospheric lifetime.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI

Synonyms

N2O

Broader

Greenhouse gas

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

CDI_04 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_04
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_04)