📋 Tender Overview
TCRS: 21098
Status: Approved
Location: Regional
Business Sector: Manufacturing and Services
Notice Type: Public
PSD Disclosed: 11 Apr 2025
Description: A growing global population and increased incomes are projected to lead to a 50% increase in demand for food by 2050 compared to 2012 levels. Fertilisers will need to play a pivotal role in meeting this increased demand, while also contributing to the global reduction in GHG emissions and support realising other sustainable development goals. Fertilisers are a significant contributor to GHG emissions, with an estimated 2.5% of global GHG emissions stemming from fertiliser production (1.3% from ammonia), distribution, and use. With increasing global production and application of fertilisers, the fertiliser industry must address the challenge of mitigating its GHG emissions while keeping pace with evolving global demand.
Fertiliser consumption is now six times larger than it was sixty years ago. This significant increase in the volume of fertiliser has contributed to the global food systems’ ability to provide for a growing global population. Despite these benefits, such rapid expansion in fertiliser production has implications on local environments and the global climate.
Nitrogen fertiliser production, which starts with ammonia production, is particularly energy-intensive and is primarily produced using fossil fuel feedstock. In 2021, EBRD together with IFA and IEA developed the global low-carbon pathway (LCP) for ammonia production (also referred to as the Ammonia Technology Roadmap) which became the basis for the development of national LCPs in countries including Egypt, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan.
In addition, the global Ammonia Technology Roadmap, along with a report on Reducing Emissions from Fertilizer Use which IFA published with Systemiq, helped significantly inform the development of SBTi’s sectoral decarbonization approach (SDA) draft guidance for the chemical sector, which focuses on seven primary chemicals including ammonia. However, the lack of an equivalent roadmap for non-ammonia fertiliser products limits organizations like SBTi to provide decarbonization target setting guidance for potash, phosphate, and other fertilisers that do not have ammonia components in their production. Potash and phosphate comprised 42% of global fertiliser consumption in 2022.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD ), proposes a partnership with the International Fertiliser Association ( IFA ) to develop a roadmap for the global potash and phosphate fertiliser industry. The proposed collaboration will draw on the strengths of both organisations and builds upon previous collaboration on global and national sectoral low-carbon pathways for the nitrogen fertiliser sector.
The IFA is uniquely positioned to help guide the fertiliser industry to balance global food demands with the need to address climate change. With 480 members globally, including 50% from emerging
