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Carbon levy increase impact ‘small’ on agriculture: PBO

Action limited to only certain activities and will result in a small carbon reduction

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An increased carbon levy, and other measures aimed at achieving Canada’s emissions targets, won’t impact agriculture relative to other industries, according to a new report. The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released a report June 23 assessing impacts of the government’s plan to exceed the 2030 Paris reduction target for Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. “Our assessment
Current countries’ plans to keep the average global temperature rise to 1.5 C are falling well short of their goal.
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UN climate talks must boost emissions cuts, finance targets —negotiators

“We need to take stock in Glasgow on how we are going to ramp up political ambition over the next few years.” – Peter Betts

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Reuters – The next round of international climate talks this year must focus on getting more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions cuts and boosting finance for vulnerable nations, climate negotiators said June 24. Britain will host the next United Nations’ climate conference, called COP26, in November in Glasgow, Scotland. It aims to spur more ambitious commitments
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives at the European Council for an EU summit on June 24, 2021.
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Success of climate change talks rests on finance, UN chief says

Richer nations need to make meaningful financial contributions to efforts

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Reuters – The success of international climate negotiations in November will depend on a breakthrough in financial contributions from rich countries, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on June 24. With less than five months to go until the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, there are increasing tensions around climate finance — money rich countries
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CME Group to launch nature-based global emission offset futures

Planting trees, agriculture projects or protecting forests all qualify

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U.S. exchange operator CME Group will launch a nature-based global emissions offset futures contract on Aug. 1 to help bring more transparency to the growing global voluntary carbon offset market, it said June 21. Nature-based offsets can be generated through schemes such as planting trees, agriculture projects or protecting forests that would otherwise be destroyed.
Aquanty draws from real-time models in 15 sub-watershed districts in the Assiniboine River Basin.
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MFGA to develop water forecasting tool

Real-time forecasts for water flows, groundwater and soil moisture are on the way

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Producers in the Assiniboine River Basin will be able to check the finer details of water flow for their farms, much as they might check the weather, in the not-so-distant future. The federal government has slated $1.1 million for the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA) to develop a virtual forecasting tool for producers to
A report suggests that increasing soil carbon levels is one way to limit greenhouse gas emissions that exacerbate climate change.
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Opinion: IEA report has consequences for agricultural producers

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The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) widely publicized report on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to achieve global targets further bolsters the case more needs to be done in agriculture to combat climate change. Producers, as the report notes, can’t be excluded from that effort. Released this month, the report lists 400 actions that will need to
A best-case scenario for agriculture would be to get back to the pre-agriculture state of carbon sequestration, but even that’s a tall order, a new NFU report says.
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Carbon offsets not the right policy says NFU

The National Farmers Union says to instead incentivize farmers to preserve and enhance their soil

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[UPDATED: June 4, 2021] Carbon offsets for Canadian farmers aren’t the way to mitigate climate change in Canada, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU). Paying farmers to store more carbon in their soil by selling credits to carbon emitters is touted as a way for farmers to earn more revenue and cut carbon emissions.
Operating in a comparatively more theatrical political environment than Canada, U.S. President Joe Biden is tasked with convincing producers he does not plan on banning hamburgers.
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Opinion: U.S., Canada have same challenge in selling green policies to producers

Farmers aren’t typically core constituents of Liberals or Democrats

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President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are fighting the same fight in trying to get farmers on board with ambitious climate plans. Industry groups and associations in both countries will say already efforts are being made to reduce emissions, but critics say otherwise. The U.S. administration’s new, unprecedented dedication to fighting climate change
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Guest Editorial: Carbon questions loom

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The march to some sort of agricultural carbon economy is on and it’s integral that we get it right if we go down this road. Policy can’t be driven by politics and ideology. Unfortunately, the science of carbon sequestration continues to be fuzzy, which leaves open the opportunity for opinion to guide the policy. There
Scott Moe contends carbon stored by the Saskatchewan producers “should be recognized going back decades.”
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Opinion: Scott Moe’s carbon credit stance unsalable

Emitters won’t recognize — or pay for — carbon sequestered decades ago

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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe continuing to believe farmers should be credited for decades-old actions demonstrates his overall reluctance to recognize the significance of climate change. Beaten by the Supreme Court of Canada, Moe is now in the unenviable position of having to develop and introduce a carbon pricing policy. Most of his constituents don’t want

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