The EU will reward farmers who take care of the soil to absorb more CO₂. The new regulation aims to end greenwashing and create new business opportunities.
“Carbon absorptions and carbon capture in agricultural soils will constitute an important part of our efforts to achieve climate neutrality by 2050,” stressed the Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra. It is not a generalized payment to farmers, community sources point out, but rather the measure seeks to reward those who carry out so-called carbon capture agriculture practices.