On Wednesday 15 December, the Commission proposed a series of short and medium-term actions to support carbon storage in agricultural soils and better reward land managers for carbon sequestration.
By 2030, carbon farming initiatives should contribute to storing 42 Mt of CO2 in Europe’s natural carbon sinks, the Commission said. And by 2050, “each single tonne of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere will have to be neutralised by a tonne of CO2 removed from the atmosphere”.
At present,...