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Carbon farming can slash CO2 emissions
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/carbon-farming-can-slash-co2-emissions/Carbon farming can slash CO2 emissions
May 17th, 2019, by Gaye Taylor
US entrepreneurs say a new technique ? carbon farming, improving the health of the soil ? can achieve big cuts in atmospheric carbon.
WASHINGTON DC, 17 May, 2019 ? Soil health improvement, a technique known as carbon farming, could cut the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere by more than one-sixth, a US business group says.
It says a concerted effort by the world’s farmers to restore and protect soil health could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by as much as 65 parts per million (ppm) from its current level of more than 415 ppm.
It made the announcement at a webinar on carbon farming which it hosted here in April. A full report of the webinar appears on the website of the The Energy Mix.
The group, the US-based Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), describes itself as “a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate … smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment”
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May 17th, 2019, by Gaye Taylor
Florida’s citrus crops respond well to the new soil additive. Image: By Mmacbeth, via Wikimedia Commons [public domain]
US entrepreneurs say a new technique ? carbon farming, improving the health of the soil ? can achieve big cuts in atmospheric carbon.
WASHINGTON DC, 17 May, 2019 ? Soil health improvement, a technique known as carbon farming, could cut the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere by more than one-sixth, a US business group says.
It says a concerted effort by the world’s farmers to restore and protect soil health could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by as much as 65 parts per million (ppm) from its current level of more than 415 ppm.
It made the announcement at a webinar on carbon farming which it hosted here in April. A full report of the webinar appears on the website of the The Energy Mix.
The group, the US-based Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), describes itself as “a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate … smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment”
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