Carbon pricing, carbon credits, agri-emissions tax, cow burps as global villains — all very fashionable topics in climate discussions. Agriculture is now not just about food — it’s about carbon math. But one big question still hangs in the air (literally): Is any of this actually working?
Plantation projects — yes, they’ve attracted carbon credit investments. But when it comes to mainstream agriculture, we’ve been “talking implementation” for over a decade, with little to show. The biggest roadblock? Scientific verification.
How do you measure how much carbon was actually sequestered by switching to cover cropping, no-till, or rotating millets?
Without robust, scalable, ground-level verification tools, this whole thing risks becoming another paperwork circus — rewarding those who know how to fill forms better, not farm better.
And while we're busy calculating cow digestive emissions to justify taxes, the actual tools that could reduce emissions — better manure management, bio-digesters, feed efficiency — are crawling in adoption. Meanwhile, carbon credit markets are flooded with promises, not proof.
If we price carbon without measuring it right, we’re not fixing the planet — we’re just inventing a new climate currency without backing.
