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Trees are excellent technological vectors for storing co2, at the same time they perform fundamental ecosystem services.
Modern agriculture has eliminated trees from the fields to make room for the work of mechanical machines growing bigger.
We need to find a balance: agriculture capable of protecting the soil, its organic content, its productivity in the long run, its resilence, and contributing to the capture of co2.
Taxing the land according to the co2 capture capacity can be a way to increase tree density (an objective of the EU green deal) and transition to agroecology.
A part of the resources of the recovery fund can be allocated to the transition and encourage the planting of tree-lined rows to reach a land use tax based on carbon storage capabilities as a maintenance goal.
Modern agriculture has eliminated trees from the fields to make room for the work of mechanical machines growing bigger.
We need to find a balance: agriculture capable of protecting the soil, its organic content, its productivity in the long run, its resilence, and contributing to the capture of co2.
Taxing the land according to the co2 capture capacity can be a way to increase tree density (an objective of the EU green deal) and transition to agroecology.
A part of the resources of the recovery fund can be allocated to the transition and encourage the planting of tree-lined rows to reach a land use tax based on carbon storage capabilities as a maintenance goal.
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Hi, a feasible way is to set a benchmark of Soil organic Carbon (SOC) an excellent proxy of carbon storage capacity and soil health. Top soil SOC can be reliably measured and map in several way (satellite, drones or soil analysis).
Here FAO Global Map http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/pillars-action/4-information-and-data-new/global-soil-organic-carbon-gsoc-map/en/
IF a SOC benchmark is set, i.e 5%, THEN a payment scheme can be structured. Where soil is poor in SOC a Fee (a carbon Fee) is paid, far from benchmark higher the fee, and those above the benchmark may be remunerated from those below the benchmark.
This may be a way to push up (restoring soil organic content) through a incentive scheme and set a sustainable cycle of soil health. In the short term Common agricultural policy incentive scheme would be useful for a just transition to carbon storage strategies ( planting trees, cover crops, no or minimum tillage, etc)
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