The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman's sustainability bond, pay for success : vimarsana.com
February 17, 2021 | The Brief The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success The team at Greetings, Agents of Impact! Suzanne Biegel joins Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm London / 8pm Nairobi. RSVP today. Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Farmers harvest ‘soil carbon’ to meet rising corporate demand for emission offsets. Candidates in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Iowa were asked in a televised debate to cite the clearing price for bushels of corn and soybeans (Sen. Joni Ernstmuffed her answer). In the next election, they may well be asked the going price for a ton of carbon. Farmers in Iowa are getting up to $20 a ton for carbon they sequester in their soil with cover crops, no-till and other sustainable-agriculture techniques, and can fetch additional payments for water-quality credits. That can mean payments to farmers of up to $50 an acre. More than 1,500 corporations have made ‘net-zero’ pledges to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.