The Food and Agriculture Organisation has published a new methodology for estimating the amount of GHG emissions removed from the atmosphere through improved management of grasslands. The methodology is intended to provide a cost-effective means of estimating and crediting the extent to which improved management sequesters carbon in soils (thus reducing GHG emissions), so herders can earn money from selling carbon offset credits on emission trading markets. It was developed by FAO in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Agroforestry Centre and is currently being piloted in Qinghai Province, China.
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