CALGARY, ALBERTA, Oct 26, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Viterra Inc. (“Viterra”) /quotes/comstock/11t!e:vt (CA:VT 9.88, +0.13, +1.33%) (asx:VTA) is pleased to announce that its carbon credit program has aggregated over one million offsets, representing over $10 million paid to Alberta farmers, since its launch in March, 2008. Viterra purchases and aggregates carbon offset credits, based [...]
Posts Tagged ‘carbon credits’
Viterra Reaches Carbon Credit Milestone
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, No Till Farming on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Adapting agriculture to mitigate climate change
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, August 23, 2010 From droughts in Mexico to floods in Pakistan and deadly heat in the US, extreme weather events are increasing due to global warming. Experts have stated concern that these could lead to instability in global agriculture markets and even conflicts over food, similar to those seen in 2007 and 2008. In [...]
Greenhouse gas calculator connects farming practices with carbon credits
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion on August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
MADISON, WI, August 9th, 2010 – Greenhouse gas markets, where invisible gases are traded, must seem like black boxes to most people. Farmers can make money on these markets, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange, by installing methane capture technologies in animal-based systems, no-till farming, establishing grasslands, and planting trees. Farmers, students, extension educators, offset [...]
Vesco Agricultural Technologies…Setting a new standard in No-Till farming equipment. Legal and Legislative factors
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farming has generally been an unregulated activity. The primary legal and legislative involvement has been in the approval and regulation of chemical sprays and fertilizers. That is now changing. Farmers are finding that environmental concerns are leading to legal and legislative impacts on their business activities. This fact was highlighted as long ago as February 11, [...]
No-Till Farming May Be Best Way to Reduce Ag’s Carbon Footprint
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Kristen Ridley There’s been a lot of talk about the benefits of open pasture with grass-fed livestock to the environment, particularly about it’s capacity to sequester tons of carbon, but what about non-animal agriculture? As I recently reported, soil cultivation is responsible for the majority of agricultural carbon emissions, and over-cultivation is one of [...]
Farming carbon as a cash crop
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, investment, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kathleen O’Hara Like most city dwellers, my knowledge of farming is embarrassingly limited. But a conference on agriculture and global warming has inspired me to dig deeper (pun intended) into things rural. The speaker who grabbed my urban-oriented attention was American-born, U.K.-based Craig Sams, co-founder of Green and Black’s organic chocolate bars. His message was, [...]
Securing carbon in our soil
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Nicole Schuetz Better farming practices can improve crop yield and lock up greenhouse gases Everybody knows plants store carbon. But soils do too. That’s the idea behind organic no-till farming, a cultivation technique that could dramatically increase soil carbon storage across the globe. Research has shown organic farming methods sequester more carbon per acre [...]
Disappearing dirt rivals global warming as an environmental threat
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The lowdown on topsoil: It’s disappearing By TOM PAULSON The planet is getting skinned. While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet. Call it the thin brown line. Dirt. On average, the planet is [...]
Storing CO2 in soil should be on U.N. agenda: Gore
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Developing emissions markets to encourage farmers in poor countries to store more carbon dioxide in soil should be a key topic on the U.N. climate talks agenda, global warming activist Al Gore said. “I think that soil carbon conservation and recarbonizing of soil must be the next stage in this negotiating process,” former U.S. Vice [...]
Carbon credits offer opportunities for farmers
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, soil erosion, Sustainable on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
No-till fields store carbon in the form of soil organic matter, which can be sold by farmers, providing them with an additional source of income. As the United States looks to become more green, a program to trade carbon credits from farmland could play a role. When carbon is emitted into the atmosphere, by vehicles [...]
