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Download PDF There’s a lot of talk about carbon farming but what’s it really all about? CPM attended the AICC conference earlier this year to try and find out. Work with someone in the same county rather than someone the other side of the world. By Rob Jones Carbon was high on the agenda at the recent Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC) annual technical conference, as members and guests learned how it should be managed to benefit businesses, biodiversity, and the wider environment. Climate change is a reality, with weather records being broken with regularity over recent years, and this is widely agreed to be largely driven by increases in atmospheric carbon emitted by human activity. This has prompted governments around the world to set net zero targets, committing their nations to move toward the situation where they’re capturing the same or more carbon from the atmosphere than they emit, and in most cases aiming to do so by 2050. The NFU has been even more ambitious with its target for UK agriculture and its supply chains, pledging to hit net zero as an industry a decade earlier by 2040. It’s frequently said that farmers and landowners are uniquely…
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Download PDF There’s a lot of talk about carbon farming but what’s it really all about? CPM attended the AICC conference earlier this year to try and find out. Work with someone in the same county rather than someone the other side of the world. By Rob Jones Carbon was high on the agenda at the recent Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC) annual technical conference, as members and guests learned how it should be managed to benefit businesses, biodiversity, and the wider environment. Climate change is a reality, with weather records being broken with regularity over recent years, and this is widely agreed to be largely driven by increases in atmospheric carbon emitted by human activity. This has prompted governments around the world to set net zero targets, committing their nations to move toward the situation where they’re capturing the same or more carbon from the atmosphere than they emit, and in most cases aiming to do so by 2050. The NFU has been even more ambitious with its target for UK agriculture and its supply chains, pledging to hit net zero as an industry a decade earlier by 2040. It’s frequently said that farmers and landowners are uniquely…
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