On 15 December, the European Commission presented measures to enable agriculture to improve soil carbon sequestration (see EUROPE B12854A15).
It has identified a number of practices (reforestation, agroforestry, conversion of land to fallow or permanent grassland, catch crops, etc.) that could be supported by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but also, in the longer term, by a future market for carbon sequestration.
The EU’s agricultural organisations and cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca)...