« Solutions fondées sur la nature » les risques des marchés carbone des sols

The document critiques soil carbon sequestration markets, asserting they allow major polluters to avoid real emission reductions while increasing corporate control over agriculture. It highlights how these systems favor large-scale industrial farms, marginalize smallholders, and rely on unreliable measurement methods. The text further details the role of governments and corporations, such as Yara, in promoting these mechanisms despite scientific evidence suggesting that 'climate-smart' practices do not significantly increase soil carbon storage.

• Soil carbon markets function as offset systems where farmers are paid to sequester carbon to compensate for emissions produced elsewhere by companies or governments, driven by 'net-zero' commitments from 82 countries and 44% of the world's 2,000 largest companies.
• These programs primarily benefit large-scale industrial agriculture in regions like the US, Australia, and Brazil because they rely on digital agriculture software and 'smart' machinery for data collection, which are better suited for standardized monocultures.
• Carbon offsets threaten food sovereignty and climate justice by increasing private sector control over seeds and agrochemicals, facilitating the appropriation of agricultural data, and promoting land consolidation that marginalizes small-scale and diversified farms.
• The document asserts that soil carbon sequestration is an ineffective climate solution because it cannot offset fossil fuel combustion due to the difference in carbon cycle speeds, and many 'climate-smart' practices do not significantly increase carbon storage.
• Measuring soil carbon is described as practically impossible to do reliably, with high variability in samples and a risk that sequestered carbon can be released rapidly through erosion, plowing, or climate change.
• The carbon credit industry incurs significant environmental and financial costs, with OECD estimates suggesting that management, monitoring, and verification costs can exceed 40% of a carbon credit's price.
• The company Yara, a major producer of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, promotes soil carbon markets through the Agoro Carbon Alliance for large US farms and investments in Boomitra for smaller farms in India, Mexico, South America, and East Africa.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (n.d.). « Solutions fondées sur la nature » les risques des marchés carbone des sols. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ATI-SFN-fiche3.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. « Solutions fondées sur la nature » les risques des marchés carbone des sols. n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ATI-SFN-fiche3.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternationalndsolutions, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{« Solutions fondées sur la nature » les risques des marchés carbone des sols}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ATI-SFN-fiche3.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }