Our 2024 Annual Review celebrates 15 years of growth for the Farm Carbon Toolkit, detailing the impact we’ve had over the past 12 months.
Written by Liz Bowles, CEO
I feel very privileged to work with all the brilliant people at Farm Carbon Toolkit and to lead our mission to support a transition to climate and nature-positive food and farming systems in the UK and beyond.
It is very clear that agriculture is starting to feel the necessity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere. As other sectors decarbonise, the proportion of the total emissions attributable to agriculture is rising. This is putting agriculture more firmly in the spotlight and we are becoming involved with significant initiatives to properly understand the impact on GHG emissions of farming practice change and to provide insights for those providing financial incentives for these changes.
This is necessary and valuable work. However, we are clear that land managers have a significant
ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and are the only sector that can do this without recourse to the need for high tech.
Two of my highlights from 2024 have been creating the collaboration between ourselves, Agrecalc and Cool Farm Alliance to work together to harmonise and standardise footprinting methodologies where we can. This is critical to provide maximum confidence in carbon assessment tools for farmers and growers.
My second highlight was to see one of our demonstration farms from the Farm Net Zero Project win our Carbon Farmer of the Year Competition. Andrew and Clare Brewer were worthy winners and exemplified the peer-to-peer approach which we strive to bring to all we do with farmers and growers.
You can read the review here.
We really hope you enjoy reading it. If you have any questions or comments, we’d love to hear from you. Our contact details are on the final page of the review and at the bottom left of all our website pages.
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