A couple of unsung heroes are waiting in the wings to help us tackle climate change. Soil leads this dynamic duo, but it has a very important and powerful partner – organic amendments such as those produced by composting and anaerobic digestion facilities across Canada.
Context and support for this claim can be found in an important new report, Recruiting Soil to Tackle Climate Change: A Roadmap for Canada, which identifies the enormous opportunity that soil represents for combatting the climate crisis.
Written and published jointly by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada (SCCC) and the Compost Council of Canada (CCC), with support from the Metcalf Foundation, this timely report identifies an enormous opportunity. Canada’s soils – about 71 million hectares of managed agricultural and urban soils – have the potential to absorb and hold enough carbon to completely offset agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions footprint, currently estimated at 73 megatonnes (Mt) annually!