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Dishing the dirt: Australia’s move to store carbon in soil is a problem for tackling climate change – The Conversation AU

A federal government plan to increase soil carbon stores is a folly that misunderstands the technology.

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To slow climate change, humanity has two main options: reduce greenhouse gas emissions directly or find ways to remove them from the atmosphere. On the latter, storing carbon in soil or carbon farming is often touted as a promising way to offset emissions from other sources such as energy generation, industry and transport.
The Morrison governments Technology Investment Roadmap, now open for public comment, identifies soil carbon as a potential way to reduce emissions from agriculture and to o…

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