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073 | 100 Rowan Reid: Agroforestry

100 Climate Conversations

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The Future of Tree Growing

Every tree in every garden and every farm is locking up carbon. So we haven't found a way to reward all the active participants in tree growing. We've set up a scheme that only rewards some and in doing so, who carries the risk? The actual land holder ultimately carrying the risk. And you can see why it's unviable. It should be the motivation for government and universities to invest in shelter on farms or erosion on farms. All those also lock up carbon, but they don't carry the risk and uncertainty of just thinking of carbon as a market does. There you are. We can have it all,. But we've got to avoid focusing on just one.

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