For the national farmer-led coalition Farmers For Climate Solutions (FCS), Canada’s Agriculture Day was the perfect time to call on the feds for a $300M investment to cut agricultural emissions.
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A national farmer-led coalition called Farmers for Climate Solutions is calling on the federal government to invest $300 million into the agriculture sector to help it reduce its emissions by 10 million tonnes.
“Other Canadian sectors are being well-supported to reduce emissions and reskill the labour force, but farmers are being left behind,” said Arzeena Hamir, the co-chair of the Farmers for Climate Solutions Task Force, in a news release. As Global News reports, the coalition has six key programs it says are designed to help reduce the sectors environmental footprint. These programs include doing more
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Feb 24, 2021 12:38pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden held their first bilateral meeting virtually on Tuesday. (Photo via Twitter/@JustinTrudeau)
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden held their first virtual meeting on Tuesday, which included a discussion on how the two countries can work together to combat climate change. The two leaders vowed to coordinate efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
“We’re launching a high-level, climate-ambition ministerial to align our policies and our goals to achieve net zero emissions by 2050,” Biden said in a speech following the meeting.
Paying farmers to plant cover crops and use less fertilizer could reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 10 million tonnes, according to a new report.
Agriculture is responsible for roughly eight per cent of Canada’s emissions, largely because of excessive fertilizer use and poor soil health. But according to the coalition of farmers and researchers behind the report, shifting to more sustainable practices is cost-prohibitive for many farmers.
A $300-million investment by the federal government could change that, they say, reducing emissions and helping the country catch up to similar initiatives in the EU and the U.S.
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