Higher federal target needed to curtail fertilizer emissions, says environmental organization

Greenpeace Canada is calling on Ottawa to increase its target of reducing fertilizer emissions by 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030, up to 50 per cent.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced a $1.6-million investment on July 4 towards an Alberta-based technology development company to help develop a technology to produce high-efficiency fertilizers made with organic carbon.
An ambitious target set by the federal government to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with fertilizer doesn’t go far enough, according to an environmental organization that argues Canada needs to restrict its production of synthetic fertilizer. “Canada is one of the worst offend...

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