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Carbon storage for sale: USDA grants promote markets for ecosystem services

2015-11-12 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: In September, the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced its 2015 round of Conservation Innovation Grants. The agency awarded 45 grants totaling about $20 million for projects to improve soil health and to develop environmental markets. The environmental markets projects are part of a relatively new approach to conservation known as payment for ecosystem services." The idea is to be able to quantify certain seemingly intangible environmental functions, like carbon sequestration,...

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