Monsanto : Expert Leads Dialogue at Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

This week, Dr. Mike Lohuis, Monsanto's Director of Ag Environmental Strategy, was in Washington D.C. presented at a meeting of the Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. There he discussed a project that will integrate recent advancements in precision agriculture data platforms, designed to help growers optimize farm enterprise profitability, to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs), increase soil carbon, reduce soil erosion and improve water quality. Monsanto is partnering with the Soil Health Partnership and others in the development of an advanced decision system support tool and carbon accounting framework that enable carbon insetting, which is defined as the offsetting of GHG emissions inside a supply chain.

Monsanto also is sponsoring the development of the Carbon-Neutral Collaborative, a group of public and private GHG experts that will help support this project by bringing the most up-to-date approaches in quantification of GHG mitigation, carbon accounting and verification along with authoring a series of peer-reviewed papers to document these methodologies. The practices being used to reduce GHG emissions, such as reducing tillage, use of cover crops and precision ag techniques, also significantly reduce soil erosion, improve soil resilience to climate change and improve water quality.
For more information on Monsanto's role in tackling climate change, visit www.Monsanto.com/climatechange.