Carbon Farming
How your farm can help take carbon out of the air.
Watch here to learn how farming is helping reach the carbon neutrality goal by capturing the CO2 into forests, wetlands, peatlands. The Commission is supporting initiatives to accelerate this process, making farmers, foresters, and land managers shepherds of our climate.
EU Webinar
Carbon farming can play a major role in tackling climate change while offering new income opportunities for farmers but how will this new agricultural business model work and what are the key challenges ahead? Colm Markey, MEP for Midlands-North-West and member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development talks to experts about making carbon sequestration a reality and those developing the regulatory framework to implement it at EU level. Watch the webinar here.
Speakers: Christian Holzleitner, Head of Unit, DG Climate Action at the European Commission. John Gilliland, Director of Agriculture & Sustainability at Devenish Nutrition. Gary Lanigan, Principal Research Officer at Teagasc - Agriculture, and Food Development Authority (Ireland).