{"id":28786,"date":"2024-10-24T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gapki.id\/en\/?p=28786"},"modified":"2024-10-28T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:24:04","slug":"studies-show-palm-oils-big-contribution-for-net-carbon-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gapki.id\/en\/news\/2024\/10\/24\/studies-show-palm-oils-big-contribution-for-net-carbon-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies Show Palm Oil\u2019s Big Contribution For Net Carbon Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAKARTA \u2013 Unlike other vegetable oils from plants that only last for months, the palm oil is derived from perennial palm trees (25-30 years) which can function like trees in the forests. Such a reality should confirm that the palm oil industries are part of the solution to realization of Net Carbon Sink (NCS).<\/p>\n

But perhaps, if it is not yet enough or less convincing, then the following facts and description will add to the vindication of palm oil as a solution to NCS.<\/p>\n

Reduction of global emissions has recently become a hot topic of discussions, especially after the COP-26 Glassglow, Scotland, in early November 2021. Participating countries, including Indonesia, have targeted to reach Net Zero Emission (NZE) in 2060 or faster. To reach the target, all sectors are expected to contribute in realizing the Net Carbon Sink (NCS).<\/p>\n

The palm oil industries as one of the major industrial sectors in Indonesia and the world are potential to significantly contribute to reach the NCS (PASPI Monitor, 2021s). Naturally, the oil palm plantations absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in higher levels than the carbon they release to the atmosphere, contributing to the realization of NCS. Besides, the use of bioenergy, such as the biodiesel from palm oil, as a replacement of fossil fuels can reduce the global carbon emissions to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The contribution of palm oil industries to realize NCS can be still raised through the improvement of governance and application of processing technologies. The processing technology can include the carbon capture of\u00a0Palm Oil Mill Effluent<\/em>\u00a0(POME) by using the technology of Methane Capture.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, the use of palm biomass energy as a replacement of fossil fuels in CPO Mills, and the use of organic fertilizer to replace inorganic fertilizer. Such technologies can reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil palm plantations.<\/p>\n

A variety of studies (Yee et al., 2009; Matthews and Ardianto, 2015; Seng and Tamahrajah, 2021; Vicenza, 2021) show that improvement in governance, optimization of\u00a0Good Agricultural Practices<\/em>\u00a0(GAP) in the oil palm plantations, and processing technologies in CPO-Mills, can reduce GHG emissions significantly (photo-13).<\/p>\n

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Based on condition (A), in which the oil palm plantations do not apply the GAP thoroughly, not use the technology of methane capture for processing of POME, and use energy in CPO-Mills from external sources (electricity, fossil diesel fuel), the carbon dioxide emissions are in relatively higher level at 2,94 tons of CO2 eq per ton CPO.<\/p>\n

The very significant reduction of emission was seen in condition (E), in which the oil palm plantations have applied GAP thoroughly, methane capture technology, use of palm biogas and palm biomass as the source of energy in CPO-Mills. The condition results in very low carbon emissions at only 0.07 ton of CO2 eq per ton CPO.<\/p>\n

The study shows that the application of technology as part of GAP implementation, methane capture technology, use of palm biomass and palm biogas (from POME) as source of energy for CPO-Mills, can reduce emissions around 96 percent. It means that if the emission reduction combined with the capacity of carbon sink on the result of net photosynthesis, then the contribution of oil palm plantations to the realization of NCS target will be higher.<\/p>\n

The amount of carbon sink can be still increased through the increase of \u00a0productivity (PASPI Monitor, 2021b). The study result of Beyer et al. (2020) and Beyer and Rademacher (2021) reveals that the productivity increase of global palm oil at 54 percent can reduce the emissions of global oil palm plantations at 35 percent.<\/p>\n

The productivity increase will reduce the burden of emissions, through the increase of carbon sink on the process of photosynthesis and the reduction of carbon source per ton of produced palm oil.<\/p>\n

That way the palm oil industries have big potential to contribute to the realization of NCS. The application of GAP, methane capture technology, use of palm biogas and palm biomass, and increase of plantations\u2019 productivity which is being pursued by oil palm growers, will ensure that the palm oil industries become part of the solution to realization NCS.<\/p>\n

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