E - Agricultural Mitigation

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2021 IPR’s top policy forecasts # 6-10
2021 Key NBS for addressing CC impacts on agriculture and their benefits and trade-offs
Climate models may be mistakenly calibrated when it comes to soil carbon
Current climate models may be substantially under-estimating the release of carbon from warming soils
E - Biochar
It now appears that soil microbes can break down many more compounds than originally thought
Many hopes of soil carbon sequestration are based on long-lived carbon storage in humus. That now appears to have been optimistic.
No-till agriculture has turned out not to sequester much additional carbon
There is growing pushback against the Harnessing Plant Initiative’s idea that plants could be bred to emit more suberin, and that it would resist decomposition