Vale of Belvoir Monitor Farm meeting: Carbon – Preparing for Net Zero

This meeting will aim to answer all your questions on carbon, from the most basic to the more involved. Discussion will be led by Sarah Wynn, Technical Director for Climate Change and Sustainability at ADAS, who is a leading national authority on Net-Zero, carbon footprint assessment and benchmarking in agriculture.

Sarah will include the results of the carbon audit at the monitor farm, and along with monitor farmer James Parker, will discuss the implications and action planning. We will also include:

• What you need to know about carbon
• Why carbon matters
• Carbon emission vs. sequestration – what are they. Comparison of farming enterprise types and crops/arable
• Where to start if you haven’t already done anything about it
• What is carbon footprinting?
• What to do with the results
• Preparing an action plan and mitigation
• Carbon credit schemes
• What questions you should be asking