"Climate change mitigation in the face of nutrient supply risk: Limits of phosphorus supply and how they affect carbon dioxide removal."

“面临养分供应风险时减缓气候变化：磷供应的限制及其如何影响二氧化碳的去除。”

• 批准号: 2863162
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2863162
• 关键词: Climate; change; mitigation; face; nutrient

"The overarching aim of the research suggested in this proposal is to understand and quantify potential limits to P provision as a consequence of economic scarcity or out of environmental considerations, to identify the options available to improve the management of the P supply chain as well as to evaluate a range of policy options mitigating the hazards and adverse impacts of constrained P supplies. By assessing the impact of limited, expensive or even detrimental nutrient supply on biological sources of negative carbon emissions, established climate change mitigation strategies will be challenged. WP1: Quantification of economic scarcity of P i) Objective The objective is (1) to quantify the short-term systemic supply risk of the fertilizer trade network with respect to 'external shocks', for instance arising from one sided trade policy, health or environmental regulations or geopolitical crises; (2) to gain understanding of mid- and long-term economic scarcity as a consequence of inadequate investment strategies and responses to local resource depletion resulting in shortages of global production capacity; and to (3) investigate the impact of risks associated with the presence of oligopolies and cartels on an increasingly concentrated market and a trend of horizontal integration across agricultural input industries and vertical integration of the supply chain from mine to fork. ii) Methodology and tasks In order to achieve the objective, relevant and realistic narratives and P-market constellations are investigated, including the following: Political instability in regions such as North Africa or the Middle East (together accounting for roughly 85% of documented reserves19) could directly affect the supply of P, e.g. through strikes or revolts, or indirectly through inadequate capital investments, resulting in noncompetitive vintage structure being withdrawn from the market in the long run. Efforts to limit the maximum content of the heavy metal Cadmium in fertilizers traded within the EU20 could limit the number of suppliers available to deliver that quality, for instance Russia. What is intended to serve human health could therefore result in inflated price levels for the European agribusiness. China, the by far largest current producer (over 50% of global production in 2015 according the British Geological Service) has a P-economy based on a large number of small labor intensive mines21. Current market studies predict a significant decline in production capacity due to increasing costs and depletion. Assuming a static resource figure, the present production levels can only be sustained for another 20-30 years. A shift of demand of that magnitude towards sourcing at the world market would with no doubt disrupt the current P supply chain in the near future. Supply risk could arise from the very characteristics of the P-market being a demand driven market (i.e. surplus production is not acquired by the market but stockpiled by the producers). Price levels increasing only slowly and below the inflation rate cause sluggish capital investments, leading to insufficient resource adequacy. Only a subsequent price peak incentivizes the installation of new production assets11. The quantification of supply risks associated with such narratives requires a bottom up framework based on a global network of internationally active agents and country specific policy setups, as well as the reflection of potential strategies and expectations of different market players guiding their investment decisions. Existing P-supply models, however, either draw on the 'peak phosphorus' idea based on static reserve and production figures, or they use country or region level aggregates26, thereby hiding important variation at mine or industrial plant level and neglecting engineering-type constraints affecting the investment decision in production assets.

“这项建议所建议的研究的主要目的，是了解和量化因经济短缺或环境因素而对磷供应的潜在限制，找出可供选择的方案，以改善磷供应链的管理，以及评估一系列政策选择，以减轻磷供应受限制的危险和不利影响。通过评估有限、昂贵甚至有害的养分供应对负碳排放的生物来源的影响，既定的气候变化缓解战略将受到挑战。1)目标是(1)量化化肥贸易网络在“外部冲击”方面的短期系统性供应风险，例如由贸易政策、健康或环境法规或地缘政治危机引起的冲击；(2)了解由于对当地资源枯竭的投资战略和应对措施不足而造成的中长期经济稀缺性，从而造成全球生产能力短缺；以及(3)调查与寡头和卡特尔的存在相关的风险对日益集中的市场的影响，以及跨农业投入品行业的横向一体化和从矿山到叉子的供应链纵向一体化的趋势。二)调查了实现客观、相关和现实的叙述和P市场星座的方法和任务，包括：北非或中东等区域的政治不稳定(合计约占记录储量的85%19)可能直接影响P的供应，例如通过罢工或叛乱，或通过资本投资不足间接影响P的供应，导致缺乏竞争力的葡萄酒结构从长期市场上撤出。限制欧盟20国内部交易的化肥中重金属镉最大含量的努力，可能会限制可提供这种质量的供应商的数量，例如俄罗斯。因此，旨在为人类健康服务的东西可能会导致欧洲农业综合企业的价格水平上涨。目前最大的矿商中国(根据英国地质局的数据，2015年超过全球产量的50%)拥有基于大量小型劳动密集型煤矿的P-经济21。目前的市场研究预测，由于成本增加和消耗，产能将大幅下降。假设资源数量不变，目前的产量水平只能再维持20-30年。如此大规模的需求转向在世界市场采购，无疑将在不久的将来扰乱目前的P供应链。供应风险可能源于P市场是需求驱动型市场的特征(即过剩的生产不是由市场获得，而是由生产者储存)。价格水平仅缓慢增长且低于通货膨胀率，导致资本投资乏力，导致资源充足率不足。只有随后的价格高峰才会刺激安装新的生产资产11。要量化与这种叙述相关的供应风险，需要一个自下而上的框架，其基础是一个由国际活跃机构和具体国家的政策设置组成的全球网络，并反映不同市场参与者的潜在战略和预期，以指导其投资决策。然而，现有的磷供应模型要么基于静态储量和产量数据的“峰值磷”概念，要么使用国家或地区层面的总量26，从而隐藏了矿山或工业工厂层面的重要变化，并忽略了影响生产资产投资决策的工程类型约束。