Working group lead: Xin Zhang

Climate Working Group

This group’s central objective will be to coordinate and stimulate research on the interplay between N and climate actions in order to minimize trade-offs and maximize synergies between national actions plans for N and Nationally Determined Contributions under the international climate regime. More specifically, the working group will consider the implications of major decarbonization strategies (e.g., green ammonia and next generation biofuels) on N waste reduction efforts, as well as the effects of different climate adaptation strategies on N use (e.g. the development of more N efficient or drought and heat resistant crop types).

Given the centrality of climate in national and global environmental policy discussions, this working group will help to integrate N into those conversations and contribute to improved decision-making. It will link with the science and policy workshops organized by NICCEE, including joint workshops in Years 2 and 3 of the project. iN-Net will enhance the outcomes of these workshops by bringing in partners from the Global South and policy community.

Outputs will include a guidance document and policy briefs outlining the major links between N and climate change and the tradeoffs and synergies between different actions, a perspective paper detailing a research agenda for how N and climate interactions should be studied moving forward, and regionally or subject-specific grant proposals building on NICCEE’s work.

Nitrogen & Climate Working Group Members 

Lead: Xin Zhang 

Research Fellow: Valerie Fajardo 

Members from iN-Net Partner Organizations 

Wilfried Winiwarter - Global Carbon Project (GCP)

Dong-Gill Kim - Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM)

Dominique Serça - Integrated Nitrogen Studies in Africa (INSA)

Tariq Aziz - South Asia Nitrogen Hub (SANH)

Working Group Members 

Kazuya Nishina - National Institute for Environmental Studies

Valerie Fajardo - University of Miami School of Law

Wim de Vries - Wageningen University and Research

Lucy Gilliam  - Resilient delta (convergence programme of TU Delft & Erasmus university

Maria Luz Cayuela - CSIC

Abdalhakim M.A. Ksheem - University of Tripoli/Faculty of agriculture

Imane Slimani - FAO

Amanda Lake - Jacobs, International Water Association

Mizanur Rahman - Gazipur Agricultural University

Cheng Gong - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Baojing Gu - Zhejiang University

Roberto Picetti - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Saeed Karimzadeh - University of California Davis, USA; TU Delft, Netherlands; Aalto University, Finland

Maya Almaraz - Yale University

Bedanga Bordoloi - Independent Technical Expert

Michal Purol - UNEP/GRID-Warsaw

Francesca Degan - Arvalis - Institut du végétal; COMIFER - Comité Français pour la feritlisation Raisonnée

Prakash Ghimire - Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University

Chenchen Ren - Carnegie Institution for Science

Jize Jiang - ETH Zurich

Leonardo Verdi - Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry - University of Florence

Qian Zhang - University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program

Folake Bosede Anjorin - Institute of Agriculture Research & Training, Obafemi Awolowo University

Talent Namatsheve - Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Zimbabwe and Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Thomas Nickson - Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)

Corazon Achieng - Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company

Muhammad Saleem Kashif - Government College University Lahore-Pakistan

Dong-Gill Kim - Hawassa University, Ethiopia

Mohammad M.R. Jahangir - Bangladesh Agricultural University

Barbara Amon - Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy 

Saumya Singh - Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal

Muhammad Riaz - Government College University Faisalabad

Abdul Wakeel - University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Enzai Du - Beijing Normal University, Faulty of Geographical Science