Rewarding Farmers for Reducing Emissions
Photo by Chad Johnson
Reward Farmers for Cutting Emissions
A cap on carbon creates economic opportunity for farmers.
We're working to create offset markets that pay farmers for reducing for greenhouse gas emissions through methods like:
- Carbon sequestration
- Forest and wetlands conservation
- Methane capture
OUR WORK
We're already working with farmers and landowners on market-based conservation programs to prepare for potential clean energy dividends in future offset markets.
Emission Offsets: A Future Cash Crop for California Farmers
We've worked with growers in California to reduce two potent greenhouse gases associated with rice production, methane and nitrous oxide.
Cleaning Up Hog Waste in North Carolina
This ground-breaking program to manage hog waste in a way that's both clean and profitable featured a methane capture pilot program. Learn more from our fact sheet [PDF].
RESOURCES
Carbon Sequestration
Learn about carbon sequestration in detail and visit our Climate 411 blog for information on geological sequestration deep with the earth and biological sequestration in soil and trees.
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration Public Workshop - watch presentation videos from this event, co-sponsored by EDF on March 5, 2009 in New York City.
Nitrogen Reduction
See how Iowa growers are using networks to maintain yields while reducing their use of nitrogen, a major source of environmental damage.
International Emissions Reductions
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) [PDF] shows how tropical nations are lowering emissions by working together with forest peoples – and how this can help industrial nations cut fossil fuel emissions even faster.
