https://civileats.com/2024/07/09/are-companies-using-carbon-markets-to-sell-more-pesticides/ Daily News and Commentary About the American Food System Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://civileats.com/2024/07/09/are-companies-using-carbon-markets-to-sell-more-pesticides/#comment-309549 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 23:54:03 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=56872#comment-309549 Indigo Ag paid the Climate Action Reserve to develop the protocol and helped draft its requirements. This allowed Indigo Ag to influence the protocol’s design, letting them choose their own sampling methods and model calculations, all subject to approval from the same organization they paid. The protocol doesn’t require independent verifiers to collect their own soil samples or validate the climate benefits. CarbonPlan evaluated these protocols and found several issues and conflicts of interest. See: https://carbonplan.org/research/soil-carbon-comment

]]> https://civileats.com/2024/07/09/are-companies-using-carbon-markets-to-sell-more-pesticides/#comment-309542 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:03:10 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=56872#comment-309542 Thank you for helping us understand this corporate profit landscape. Adding some data on how much farmers receive in payments from carbon markets would be a useful addition. When I pencilled it out for Indigo a few years ago, I was surprised at how low the price per ton if CO2 turned out to be. That price was also much lower than the company’s internal value of a ton of CO2!

]]> https://civileats.com/2024/07/09/are-companies-using-carbon-markets-to-sell-more-pesticides/#comment-309541 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:01:20 +0000 https://civileats.com/?p=56872#comment-309541 What about all the no till farms that don’t get a carbon payout. Those old school no till guys have been building carbon reserves for 20 years or more.

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