There are many steps we need to take to a sustainable planet, and many possible paths. One path involves steering America’s farmers and ranchers toward greener food production.
Joe Biden is doing just that.
According to a recent article in Politico:
Agriculture produces about 10 percent of U.S. carbon emissions, and it’s been a priority of Biden’s climate plan to nudge the nation’s farmers and ranchers toward greener, less carbon-intensive ways of producing food.
The move: The Democrats used their marquee climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, to authorize funding to jump-start the transition of American agriculture toward less carbon-intensive practices. In total, the IRA aims to spend roughly $20 billion on climate-smart agriculture over the next eight years. It will also target $300 million to develop more reliable and accurate standards for measuring, monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions reductions in agriculture.
The impact: The money will bankroll farmers’ transition to practices the U.S. Department of Agriculture deems climate-smart, like planting cover crops, reducing tilling, and rotating cattle-grazing zones, all of which can reduce and sequester emissions of atmosphere-warming carbon, nitrous oxide and methane.
To monitor improvement and get farmers and analysts the information they need, the Biden-Harris administration will set up two new research networks—a Greenhouse Gas Research Network and a Soil Carbon Monitoring and Research Network—and it will work to ensure they make progress.
Is there still more work to be done? 100%! Lots more work. But Biden did more than many people guessed could be done. He deserves a lot of credit. AND he deserves to be re-elected.
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