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Urgent abatement of industrial sources of nitrous oxide

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The industrial emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric ozone-depleting substance, have increased since 2010. However, untapped abatement potential for industrial emissions currently exists through low-cost technologies.

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Fig. 1: Progress on abating N2O emissions from the industrial sector has been uneven.

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E.A.D. acknowledges support from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the National Academy of Sciences while he served as Jefferson Science Fellow at the US State Department, where part of this work was initiated. E.A.D. thanks colleagues at the Office of Environmental Quality in the State Department for their encouragement during the Fellowship. W.W.’s work is a contribution to EYE-CLIMA, a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement number 101081395.

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  1. Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA

    Eric A. Davidson

  2. Spark Climate Solutions, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Eric A. Davidson

  3. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

    Wilfried Winiwarter

  4. Institute for Environmental Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Wilfried Winiwarter

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Davidson, E.A., Winiwarter, W. Urgent abatement of industrial sources of nitrous oxide. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 599–601 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01723-3

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