On Tuesday, 24 September, in Helsinki, the European ministers of agriculture judged that the proposals for the post-2020 common agricultural policy (CAP) offered sufficient tools to fight climate change and increase soil carbon storage.
During the informal meeting, Finland’s presidency of the Council of the EU organised a debate on the role of agriculture in carbon sequestration in soils.
In Finnish minister Jari Leppä’s opinion, carbon sequestration in soils is one of the effective...