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Looking for Ways to Transform the Chaotic Carbon Market for Ag

Looking for Ways to Transform the Chaotic Carbon Market for Ag


With at least 22 different carbon programs being marketed now to farmers by private companies, a new research paper looks at how those programs should be transformed to deal with barriers to adoption and ideally broaden the adoptions of conservation practices in the process.

A big barrier still comes down to money.

The paper, “Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Program Chaos to Systems Change,” looks at some of the dynamics going on in carbon markets without specifically calling out any single company in the markets. The report looks at the overall picture as carbon markets still remain in their infancy.

The report was released by American Farmland Trust and presented Wednesday at the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) annual meeting in Des Moines.

While there are 22 programs right now, at least 16 of those programs have been developed in the past eight years.

“They just really exploded and many of them even last year were just released,” said Robert Parkhurst, co-author and president of Sierra View Solutions. “There’s an opportunity right now to transform them. There’s a lot of activity.”

 

Source: governorsbiofuelscoalition.org

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