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Big name food brands are pursuing decarbonisation – but they are squeezing farmers in the process.
A group of agricultural and soil scientists has serious concerns about the way credits are awarded for soil carbon sequestration in Australia.
Carbon offsetting is often met with scepticism, but a new report suggests that if correctly designed it can be an important part of the net zero transition.
Removing carbon from the atmosphere raises political questions that should be addressed by democratic institutions.
At COP26 in Glasgow everyone was committed to saving the planet, but there were highly divergent views about how to do it.
Planting trees can sometimes be a carbon-offset box-ticking exercise, but reforestation is a long-term commitment that supports communities, promotes biodiversity and tackles the climate emergency.
No-one says reducing emissions from the agriculture sector will be easy. But it must be done, or farmers will suffer the most.
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Professor of Organisms and Environment, Cardiff University
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Director, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
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Professor of Biology, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor of Political Ecology, Lund University
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Soil & Landscape Science, Curtin University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, University of New England
