Carbon Cycles and Sinks Network Documents, Submissions 

Building a greenhouse gas emissions reduction and sinks development programme into the CAP

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This submission was made by the Carbon Cycles and Sinks Network. It describes a possible framework for a Rural Environmental Protection-type framework which would reward farmers for practices that were likely to lead to their reducing their GHG emissions and also increasing the carbon content of their soils and the biomass growing on them. It suggests that best farming practice is re-assessed in the light of its climate effects and sequestration potential and re-defined if necessary. Farm payments would be made conditional on the adoption of these new best practice standards. No attempt would be made to pay farmers for the amount of carbon they lock away but the results would be monitored to ensure that, over the EU as a whole, the payments were achieving the desired results in an economically efficient way.

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