‘Farmers can sell carbon credits to Ryanair’ – EU climate action chief
The conference heard that a farmer doing an action that increases the carbon sequestration will be counted in the national inventory and can be traded on the voluntary carbon market
Farmers will be able to sell carbon credits from their farms outside the agricultural sector to the likes of Ryanair, according to Christian Holzleitner, Head of Land Economy and Carbon Removals at the European Commission DG for Climate Action.
He was speaking at the Teagasc carbon farming conference in Ashtown, which heard it is very difficult to measure carbon in soils to establish a baseline and there will be “winners and losers” when it comes to how much carbon can be sequestered in different soils.
