carbon storage

Harnessing the mitigation potential of soil carbon

Quinghai-China

With attention turning to climate-smart agriculture, a new book analyses the mitigation potential of soil carbon and discusses lessons learned from pilot projects seeking to access carbon finance.

Money for grass

grassland china

Could the carbon stored in grasslands be worth enough to motivate farmers or herders to improve their management? Last week, the FAO announced it had come up with a new methodology to reliably and cost-effectively estimate the amount of greenhouse gas emissions which could be removed from the atmosphere by the improved management of grasslands. [...]