Environmental Defense Fund touts new initiative
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) officials are touting the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program as beneficial to farmers and climate advocates.
The initiative is viewed as an endeavor EDF has worked toward for more than two years. The Department of Agriculture program is slated to increase the number of technical assistance providers to aid farmers in gaining knowledge to adopt farming practices that qualify for credits on voluntary carbon markets.
“U.S. farmers can be part of the climate solution by lowering emissions from farming and increasing carbon storage,” EDF Political Affairs Senior Vice President Elizabeth Gore said via a statement. “This legislation paves the way for producers to generate additional revenue from providing these climate benefits while also building resilience to droughts, variable rainfall, and other climate impacts that are already making a difficult profession even harder.”
The program will prove beneficial to climate and producers’ bottom lines, creating economic opportunity through agricultural climate solutions.
“Congress also passed the Acceptance and Use of Private Funds For Public-Private Partnerships — formerly called the SUSTAINS Act — a law that will complement the Biden administration’s considerable investments in climate-smart agriculture by bringing the private sector to the table to help fund USDA conservation programs,” Gore noted.
