Climate change: cutting emissions on UK farms

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This blog has featured the excellent work of the Farming Carbon Cutting Toolkit:

Welcome to the 

Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit

The aim of FCCT is to encourage and support farmers and growers to reduce their farm greenhouse gas emissions, increase their farm energy resilience and in doing so also improve their farm business in the future.

Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit

They and their farming colleagues are featured on the latest episode of Costing the Earth on Radio 4:

Tony's Farm

Costing the Earth

When Anna Jones was growing up, the air was clean and the grass was lush. She lived on a farm in Shropshire, and phrases such as 'greenhouse gas emissions' and carbon footprints were associated with towns and cities - factories, cars and aerosols. 

Not anymore. We now know that 10% of the UK's greenhouse emissions come from farms, and there is a concerted effort to encourage farmers to reduce their carbon footprint. But in a world where the idea of stewardship has only recently taken hold, how do you communicate the importance of carbon emissions to a farmer? Anna starts with her father, Tony, first. 

The programme also features contributions from two other farmers - Ian Pigott and Rob Richmond, one arable, one dairy - who have both changed their ways; and Becky Willson, project officer with the Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit, travels to Tony Jones' Shropshire farm to measure his carbon footprint.

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Tony's Farm
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