When COP26 concluded in Glasgow, Scotland participants echoed the urgency to limit global warming to below 2°C, ideally below 1.5°C. To achieve this, emissions reductions would need to be supported by all available options to mitigate climate risks. Besides its many functions that support life, soil stores carbon in the form of organic matter and minerals. This carbon sequestration, measured in the form of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), makes soils the planet’s largest carbon sink on land. Sustainable land and soil management practices hold the potential to offset increasing atmospheric concentration of CO2 and reduce climate vulnerability while ensuring food security for the world.
