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"This is how carbon farming works. Farmers plant trees on abandoned farmland.
The trees take in carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, acting as a natural
sink to offset some emissions. For farmers, these carbon-storing plants pay off
with carbon credits.
It sounds simple. But in recent years, the technique has come under fire over
claims the approach is not delivering the carbon credits required to offset
Australia’s carbon emissions.
This comes amid a broader crisis of confidence in carbon offsets and credits.
As a restoration scientist, I believe it’s good the industry gets more
scrutiny. But we should not write off carbon farming. If done properly, carbon
farming can also restore lost habitat and help tackle the global biodiversity
crisis. As Earth loses more and more species, large-scale restoration is now
essential.
We know keeping existing habitat and restoring degraded land to habitat will
benefit 86% of the over 1,300 threatened species in Australia. At one well-run
carbon farming initiative in southwestern Australia, for instance, we saw a
rare malleefowl – a bird that is exceptionally fussy about where it lives."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
