"#Denmark has become the first country in the world to introduce a tax on #AgriculturalEmissions.
Under the new tax framework, landowners will pay based on their emissions from livestock, fertiliser, forestry and the disturbance of carbon-rich agricultural soils.
One of the main sources of CO2 emissions in the Danish agricultural sector is the drainage and cultivation of former wetlands. Rewilding these is a major strategy for reducing the sector’s emissions."
Extraordinary: this cooperation between farmers, nature groups, and government bucks the current European trend of headbutting among such groups. Doing this will pay off in so many ways.
"The agreement earmarks DKK 40 billion [US $ 5.8 bn] for a new fund to provide subsidies for this type of rewilding. It also pledges to raise 250,000 hectares of new forest, 100,000 of which must be ‘untouched’, ie. with no forestry operations."
But this highly complex, difficult, and positive achievement is framed in the English language press merely as a "tax on cows".
Tells you something about the willingness to strike compromise agreement, and the importance of the press in getting broad support for it.
English-language journalists:
It's really not that hard to find local coverage, then throw it into a translator.
The end result may be a "tax on cows" - and that is certainly news - but the REAL news here is that a country managed to hammer out an extremely fractious and difficult agreement. THAT is what needs highlighting right now.
Because it's awesome.
No other country has managed it so far.
A study in Germany and Luxembourg "has shown for the first time that #permaculture brings about a significant improvement in #biodiversity, #SoilQuality and #CarbonStorage.
According to the study, the soil quality and biodiversity on the permaculture plots was distinctly higher compared to the surrounding conventional agricultural land as well as compared to the literature values for conventional agriculture."
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-permaculture-sustainable-alternative-conventional-agriculture.html
It's happening:
Denmark to convert 15% of farmland to forest to cut fertilizer use
"#Denmark [is] the first country to impose a #CarbonTax on #agriculture, [and] plans to plant one billion trees on farmland over the following 20 years.
Reducing emissions from agriculture, Denmark's largest source of greenhouse gases, has been a major hurdle for [achieving] a legally binding 2030 target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels."
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
