Regenerative Agriculture is the safest, fastest, most well-proven way to do that.
According to Rattan Lal, regenerative agriculture could draw down the
50 parts per million
of CO2 we need to get back to
350 parts per million
of CO2 in the atmosphere.
With global adoption of conservation agriculture, world cropland could sequester
40 million to 1 billion
tons of carbon annually over a period of
50 to 100 years.
That’s a lot of carbon.
Grasslands alone could sequester
54 to 216 million tons
annually by 2030 according to the IPCC.
Soil
is our climate change #NoRegrets solution.
More detail about how much carbon we can sequester through regenerative agriculture, and how long that carbon stays in the soil
When climate uncertainty is included in the projections, they range from 2.5 to 7.8 degrees Celsius
Restrict our atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm (pre 1990 levels) and end up with a 0 to 0.5 degree Celsius temperature change by re-distributing carbon.
The ocean currently holds
The oceanic pool is growing at 2.3 billion tons per year because it is absorbing excess atmospheric carbon. This in turn is causing harm as it acidifies the ocean.
Fossil carbon currently accounts for
This is shrinking, as we are burning it up at about 8 billion tons of carbon per year.
The soil currently contains
PROBLEM: MORE ON THAT SOON!
The biotic pool contains living biomass (plants, animals, et cetera) and dead detritus such as leaf litter. It currently accounts for
The atmospheric pool currently holds
and is growing at 4 billion tons per year due to fossil fuel burning and land use.
Regenerative agriculture
Emission Reduction
THE
BIG
SOLUTION
It’s imperative that our emissions reduction efforts work WITH regenerative agriculture. We must devote significant resources to an innovation, research and investment environment that stays on the cutting edge of this work.
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