Climate driver · Rationale

Emission source

Process or activity that releases greenhouse gases to the atmosphere; in agri-food systems the principal sources include livestock digestion, flooded soils, nitrogen inputs, and land-use change.

Definition source: IPCC 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Synonyms

greenhouse gas source, GHG source

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Enteric fermentation, Nitrogen fixation

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Restructure (v5)

Identifier

CDI_05 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_05
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_05)