Christopher Nicholson: Regenerative agriculture could be the silver bullet to climate change woes By Christopher Nicholson
Carbon sequestration is one of the many benefits of regenerative agriculture.
Farming’s carbon footprint is in the news again with the publication this week of the Farming for 1.5 Degrees panel’s final report.
It sets out a route for Scotland’s farmers to make a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, demonstrating that farming can offer a solution to climate change providing we farm appropriately.
The panel’s findings and recommendations have much in common with former Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing’s farmer-led sector reports published earlier this year, and our policymakers should waste no time in using these reports to fill the post-2024 rural policy void.