Tag: Climate Change

NRCS Staff Hosts Stakeholder Briefing

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The quarterly briefing by NRCS Chief Cosby occurred this week. Below are the highlights on the staff presentation regarding climate change programs, a key priority for USDA.

Climate Smart Practice Update Notes – Dana Ashford-Kornburger.

Thank you all for the continued input and feedback on activities that provide mitigation benefits. Especially those stakeholders that have provided scientific literature and/or participated in State Technical Committees at the state level. Many states are building out Climate Change subcommittees of their State Technical Committees, so this is a great place to give input for state initiatives and provide feedback.


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Congress Hears From Farmers On Climate Change Solutions

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More technical assistance and streamlined application processes for conservation programs would help farmers adopt practices to reduce greenhouse gases, lawmakers were told at a hearing on how the next farm bill should address climate change.

“It is about workforce,” former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota told the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday, recommending that the Natural Resources Conservation Service increase the use of partnerships with land-grant universities and other entities to get needed technical help to farmers.


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Natural Resource Conservation Services (NRCS) Holds Stakeholder’s Call

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In their continuing effort to reach out to interested industry partners, NRCS Chief Cosby and his senior staff briefed NLICA and other interested stakeholders on the Service’s recent activities. Chief Cosby highlighted the three agency policy priorities: diversity, climate and urban agriculture. You can view the three Powerpoint briefing presentations on the subjects.


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UN Report Signals Climate Change Warnings

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Climate change was one of a number of legislative priority issues discussed at the recent National LICA Legislative Committee meeting. Infrastructure and budget reconciliation bills include numerous provisions to reduce carbon emissions. A new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns time is growing short to address global climate change, whose impacts are being seen in more extreme weather events such as drought and heavier precipitation, and changes to agricultural practices could take decades to have an impact on carbon emissions.

The report "is a code red for humanity," the United Nations panel said. "The alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions are choking our planet & placing billions of people in danger."


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