France Backs Soil Carbon Plan Ahead of Climate Summit: Le Foll
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France supports combining food security and carbon sequestration in soils as part of a global agreement to fight climate warming later this year, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said in an interview.
Linking cuts in greenhouse gases to fertilizing soils is important for developing countries, particularly in Africa, who don’t want to be prevented from producing more food for the sake of climate considerations, Le Foll said. Limits on food and farm production “for them would be a difficult element” to accept in any agreement, he said.