Measuring and Managing Carbon on Commons - Webinar

Measuring and Managing Carbon on Commons - Webinar

Carbon footprint, carbon capture, and net-zero farming are all terms upland farmers hear. But what do they mean for a farm business?

A FREE webinar took place on Monday 6 March (7:30pm-9:00pm) to help commoners answer this question.

Hosted by the Foundation for Common Land (FCL) it is intended to help farmers understand how they can map and manage their farm’s carbon footprint across in-bye and common land. It will also provide guidance on how farmers can reduce their greenhouse emissions and increase the carbon stored in their land. And it will help to answer the question of where the money will come from to pay for this, explains Project Manager Sam Caraway.

Becky Wilson from the Farm Carbon Toolkit was joined by commoners from Kinniside common to talk about the work they’ve done to ‘commons-proof’ a carbon calculator. It is a tool that will be free for any farmer to use.

David Jones, Executive Director of CO2eco leads a session on carbon finance. He outlines how carbon finance can support nature recovery and farming resilience and how farmers can access this.

And Rosie Snowden, from Yorkshire Peat Partnership, talks about how farmers can identify, plan, and fund peat restoration on their common.