Reversing the Loss of Soil Organic Matter - The Elephant in the Room and Solution to Closing the Emissions Gap - Regeneration International

Reversing the Loss of Soil Organic Matter - The Elephant in the Room and Solution to Closing the Emissions Gap - Regeneration International

Academics and policymakers make data-free assumptions that most of the increase in CO2 from 278 ppm in 1750 to over 427 ppm in 2024 comes from burning fossil fuels and cement production, with a small proportion from deforestation and nothing from the loss of soil organic matter. 1 According to leading soil scientist Professor Rattan Lal of Ohio State University, soils contain over 2,700 Gt (billion tons) of carbon, the largest terrestrial carbon…