On the source of carbon emissions
Today's detailed study of carbon emissions, its sources, and categories are different.
First, energy consumption is a large amount. The fossil energy of coal, oil, and natural gas is burned as power, power supply, and heat. In industry, the operation of plants and mining equipment, steelmaking, and chemical industries, relying on this energy, carbon emissions are huge. In transportation, the driving of vehicles and ships, fuel driving, exhaust emissions, carbon overflow in the air. In the home, heating and cooking also rely more on fossil energy, causing carbon to be scattered in the four corners.
Second, industrial processes are also the source of carbon emissions. For example, when cement is fired or limestone is calcined, calcium carbonate decomposes and carbon dioxide escapes. Metallurgical industry, ore reduction, chemical reaction, carbon is emitted with gas. Ceramic manufacturing, glass production and other industries, each due to its process characteristics, all have carbon emissions.
Third, agricultural activities cannot be ignored. Livestock, livestock, their gastrointestinal fermentation, methane exhalation, this greenhouse gas, carbon related. Field fertilization, nitrogen fertilizer application, under the action of microorganisms, nitrous oxide is produced, which is also a type of carbon emissions. And farmland irrigation, pumping water energy consumption, energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Fourth, land use change and forestry. Deforestation, trees store carbon, which returns to the atmosphere. Wetland drainage, the release of carbon in the soil, all increase carbon emissions. Afforestation and afforestation, trees absorb carbon and sequester carbon, can reduce the amount of carbon emissions, but the decline and decline are related to ecological changes.
Looking at the source of carbon emissions, it is complex and multi-faceted, and all parties are related. To control carbon emissions, we must look at the overall situation, and find long-term solutions in energy change, industrial optimization, agricultural adaptation, land conservation, etc., in order to achieve environmental goodness and ecological balance.