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A one-day training workshop, Carbon Trading: Market Opportunities for Agriculture, will be held Tuesday, May 20, at the Carvel Research and Education Center, University of Delaware in Georgetown. The workshop will be conducted through a remote broadcast 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
The workshop is designed to give agricultural educators a basic understanding of the complexities of carbon trading, while providing them with a set of tools to educate farmers and landowners. The workshop will explore the development and current status of the complex and changing carbon-trading market. Carbon trading is a method to reduce global carbon emissions by allowing market mechanisms to find the most cost-effective way to do so using various sources.
This workshop is designed primarily for extension agents, soil conservation district staff, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and ag-related state agency staff, nonprofit agricultural educators, landowners and farmers.
The event will include the following presentations by several experts: Introduction to Cap & Trade and Agricultural Offsets; Agricultural Practices and Carbon Offsets; Chicago Climate Exchange and Agricultural Offsets; Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; and Carbon Credits and Whole Farm Planning. Attendees will receive the Carbon Trading: Market Opportunities for Agriculture Resource Guide.
Register online at http://agcarbontrading.org and select the Georgetown location. Registration is free and lunch will be provided to all participants at no cost.
The workshop will be hosted by the First State Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) Council, the Maryland Eastern Shore RC&D Council, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension.
It is being presented by Central New York Resource Conservation and Development Inc. with funding from Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education.
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