Q/A with an expert: What’s new about carbon programs today?
Carbon markets have quickly evolved, but this observer believes it is still a ‘Wild West’ – so proceed with caution.
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Meteorologist Hans Schmitz cautioned growers about vetting carbon market contracts carefully before signing on the dotted line in a past article. There are more answers today than there were two years ago. But the soil health and climate-smart agriculture coordinator for Purdue University still believes it is a “seller beware” market, with lots of questions yet to be answered.
“It’s still very much the Wild West, but there’s some outside chatter of a new sheriff coming to town,” Schmitz says. “Namely, some certification requirements for technical service providers from the old Growing Climate Solutions Act got written into an omnibus bill and passed in December 2022.
“If the ...
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