The report identifies capacity building, cost, lack of training and knowledge and technology transfer as barriers to reducing nitrous oxide. 11.5 Disasters 6.4 Water use and scarcity 6.5 Water manage-ment 6.3 Waste-water and water quality 6.6 Eco-systems 6.1 Drinking water 6.a and 6.b Cooperation and participation increased efficiency sustainable withdrawals Access to 100 Reduce by 50 Protect by Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. It also recommends, inter alia: installing emissions control equipment in facilities that produce adipic acid and nitric acid, which account for 5% of nitrous oxide emissions implementing prescribed burning improving the combustion and fuel efficiency of stoves and recycling nutrients in wastewater as fertilizer. To reduce agricultural emissions, which account for two-thirds of anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions, the report recommends: boosting nitrogen use efficiency during animal production and crop cultivation reducing meat consumption and reducing food loss and waste. It provides mitigation options in the agriculture, aquaculture, biomass, industry and wastewater sectors. The UNEP report, titled вЂDrawing Down N2O to Protect Climate and the Ozone Layer,вЂ™ analyzes mitigation scenarios, ranging from business as usual, where levels of nitrous oxide could increase 83% between 20, to concerted mitigation, where nitrous oxide levels could be 22% lower in 2050 than in 2005. We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in. We are determined to mobilize the means to implement the 2030 Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable. We offer a nearly universal presence across the world. Drawing down nitrous oxide can help, inter alia: secure gains in ozone layer recovery made by the Montreal Protocol narrow the emissions gap by approximately 8% and increase well-being through the green economy. Partnership is at the heart of everything UNDP does. Further, unlike chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ODS, nitrous oxide is not controlled by the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and its emissions are expected to almost double by 2050.ДЄchim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, said addressing nitrous oxide emissions offers an вЂњopportunity to keep the world under a two degree Celsius temperature riseвЂќ and achieve co-benefits. Nitrous oxideвЂ™s radiative properties and 120-year atmospheric lifetime mean that it has a disproportionate impact on global warming. UNEPвЂ™s flagship assessment is the Global Environment Outlook (GEO), produced in cooperation with a network of national, subregional, regional and global partners. Nitrous oxide, commonly known as вЂlaughing gasвЂ™, is the most important ozone depleting substance (ODS) and the third most potent greenhouse gas (GHG), according to UNEP. The report also stresses it is possible to decrease nitrous oxide emissions, resulting in climate, economic, environmental and human benefits of approximately US$160 billon annually. local authorities environment wetland lifestyle population consumption production transport car train metro drain cleanwater sanitation housing slum. 21 November 2013: Increases in nitrous oxide emissions could exacerbate climate change and undermine ozone layer recovery, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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