Carbon Farming & Carbon Markets

Carbon Farming has been heralded as a powerful approach to transform agricultural landscapes into carbon sinks at global scale. However, many carbon farming techniques are knowledge-intensive or require new technologies to be adopted at relevant geographic scales, others imply economic or environmental trade-offs and thus require appropriate incentive schemes. 

Global carbon markets could become an important source of finance for promising models of carbon agriculture, but tapping this potential comes with technical, economic, political, and ethical challenges.