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Plant nutrients are essential natural constituents of agricultural crops. With the harvest, these nutrients are removed from the soil and need to be replaced. The increasing global demand for food calls for greater agricultural productivity and improved crop nutrition, which can only be provided by mineral fertilizers... |
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Mineral fertilizers also play a key role in the cultivation of crops destined to meet the ambitious renewable energy targets set by the EU. They increase the yield of bio-energy crops both in terms of tonnage and intrinsic energy content, thereby optimising land use and maximising the return on useful energy... |
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The security of the European fertilizer industry and Europe’s food security is wholly dependent on a freely available and competitively priced supply of natural gas. Natural gas is an essential raw material for European production of mineral fertilizers which uses modern processes that conserve energy and reduce emissions... |
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In the face of a world food shortage, Europe needs to remain sufficiently self-reliant in food production and its main farm inputs. It should not endanger the existence of its own fertilizer industry and depend on external fertilizer sources from Russia, North Africa or the Middle East... |
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Europe has some of the world’s most modern ammonia and nitric acid plants. For ammonia, steam reforming natural gas technology is close to the theoretical minimum in terms of energy reduction and CO2 emissions. In nitric acid plants, N2O abatement technologies offer the potential for low levels of N2O emissions... |
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CLIMATE CHANGE Globally, agriculture accounts for 25.5% of total man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, 12% of which are due to changes in land use. Agriculture in the EU-27 accounts for 9.2% of GHG emissions and reducing these has become an important driver of the EU’s environmental, industrial and energy policies... |
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