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🥑 Agriculture, forestry and other land use types are in the focus of emission mitigation measures, as they are a relevant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.   🔐 Additional to emission mitigation, this sector has the theoretical potential to provide a global carbon sink through appropriate soil management measures and thereby storing carbon dioxide, which is accumulated by the plant during growth, as soil organic carbon (SOC).   💰 Logically, there is increasing interest to monetize this theoretical carbon sink e.g. through providing carbon credits for purchase which are derived from the amount of sequestered carbon.   💡 The agricultural sector team of Sphera's global sustainability consulting group sheds light on the reliability and applicability of current calculation methods for assessing the SOC potential in our latest whitepaper as well as in an informative blog article.   Whitepaper: https://lnkd.in/gkEvxHQG Blog article: https://lnkd.in/g8s2jNkB   📊 Sphera works with companies from all sectors to ensure reliable and tested methodologies are applied and consistent cross-sectoral LCA data is scaling data driven strategies through integrated tool solutions.

Promising: Using trees, soil, farming techniques, the ocean and direct air capture can all reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and help achieve climate goals! https://lnkd.in/ejKNdUve

MMRV plays a crucial role in agriculture-based carbon projects… but what is it, exactly, and how can it help us accelerate climate action? Learn more below ⬇️ and download the full whitepaper: https://bit.ly/48KWDDU #MMRV #CarbonProjects #Sustainability #AgricultureResilience #ClimateAction #FutureofFood #carbon #agriculture #MRV

Let the science speak

The 2nd Edition of the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report has been shared today. Very insightful to hear the key findings in the webinar today. Here are some of my takeaways: There are three principles that projects must fulfil to be considered a removal; they must capture CO2 from the atmosphere, store this CO2 durably (permanence), and be additional from natural processes (additional). CDR technologies can be categorised into (a) conventional approaches, e.g. Afforestation, Carbon farming and (b) novel approaches, e.g. Enhanced Rock Weathering, Biochar. Conventional approaches may be more easily deployed compared with novel approaches which have lower TRL, however, the mitigation potential and durability of novel approaches provide a more effective solution to achieving IPCC targets. It is recognised that there are many uncertainties that could affect achieving the climate change targets and the carbon removal is rapidly growing. As a consequence of this growth there is multitudinous approaches with many different MRV methodologies, which can make it hard to compare the impact and ensure meaningful removals. Consequently, Standards and policies are needed to ensure substantial and impactful CDR. Access to the report https://lnkd.in/ds5KMYrn

Have we got it wrong with Methane Impacts?? Yup, I know this is conventional Climate narrative 'heresy'...and me posting this DOESN'T mean I want us to back off better transport policy or reducing our environmental impacts or halting the species diversity crash. But we DO need to honour the actual science regarding the planet's atmospheric gas composition and the hydrologic cycle in our Climate Change policy. Currently we're not doing that. Instead we've been focusing on minute measurement of CO2 levels instead of the much harder task of figuring out why our planetary hydrology/water movement budget is so de-ranged. Actually, it's not hard to figure out, just challenging to reverse in the face of the widespread sale of industrial pollution permits (Carbon Credit dispensations), wholesale removal of forests in the last 200 years and current demonisation of cows and other ruminants. Cows as ruminants are crucial to recycling plant carbon and maintaining grasslands as a major part of the planetary surface cooling and rainfall cycle. Farmed regeneratively, organically, cows not only provide priceless Vitamins A & D for our health, their methane exhalations needn't be as large as currently asserted, and ruminants can help grow large amounts of humus for the soil carbon sponge. Know the basic science, push back on industrial pollution and don't kick the cows! Cows can be a big part of immediate global cooling and environmental restoration, if farmed regeneratively. Phyllis Check out my RCR interview on this topic: https://lnkd.in/gTdyNTTb

From soils to seaweed: here’s how to remove CO2 from the air around us. Read more: https://ow.ly/onkX50Q6thf 1t.org IPCC Carbon Engineering Ltd. #ClimateChange #environment

For nature based solutions to make the desired impact by carbon removal the promise & the risk must be managed. In many instances the promise needs yet to reach scale. And in other instances the risks are unavoidable. It seems technology based removal -which is also still on the path becoming economic & energy efficient- carry a better chance of being the largest solution for CO2 removal to meet net zero.

According to a new market research report published by Global Market Estimates, the global greenhouse climate control systems market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 8.60% from 2023 to 2028. The increasing demand for year-round crop production, rising awareness about sustainable agriculture, the need to mitigate the effects of climate change, technological advancements, government incentives, and a growing focus on energy-efficient solutions are the major drivers for global greenhouse climate control systems market growth.   Browse 147 Market Data Tables and 115 Figures spread through 163 Pages and in-depth TOC on “Global Greenhouse Climate Control Systems Market - Forecast to 2028’’ https://lnkd.in/dp4G5VRN #GlobalGreenhouseClimateControlSystemsMarket #GlobalMarketEstimates #GME

UK soils currently hold only 50% of their carbon potential due to soil degradation, according to House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee.🌳 Soil health is a vital 'carbon sink' - healthy soil removes huge amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and keeps it safely stored. Helping to achieve the The Climate Change Act 2008 which commits the UK government by law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100% of the 1990 baseline level by 2050. So why are we focused nearly exclusively on carbon reduction when we can easily boost Carbon storage? Discover more > https://bit.ly/3uMiDQ4 #carbonstorage #soilbiology #soilhealth #soil #climatechange