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694: Climate change and renewable energy

This paper is taken from the Commission for Rural Communities report ‘State of the Countryside 2008’

Year of Publication2008

The growing season for crops has increased by around one month in the last century and swallows arrive ten days earlier than they did fifty years ago. Rural areas have a significantly higher carbon production rate per person than urban areas. Agriculture is a minor emitter of carbon dioxide. Methane and nitrous oxide are more significant but have fallen in recent years. Bioenergy currently generates less than 1% of the UK’s energy and most of this comes from natural gas tapped from landfill waste sites.

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• Subject Collection > Environmental impact > Climate change
• Subject Collection > Renewable energy

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