The Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon (#GSOC17) held at FAO Headquarters, Rome, 21-23 March, aimed to contribute to the efforts of ending hunger and malnutrition, climate change adaptation, reversing land degradation, and overall sustainable development while linking sustainable soil management and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Regeneration International (RI) carried out interviews with several participants about their contributions to the Symposium and their insights on the challenges and opportunities of Sustainable Soil Management (SSM) techniques.

Among those interviewed were leading soil carbon scientists Dr. Kris Nichols, and Dr. Rattan Lal and Dr. Tom Crowther who explained the important role soils can play in climate change adaptation and mitigation by enhancing carbon sequestration and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. In an interview with Dr. Tom Goreau, he tells us why 350 ppm won't cut it — it will send us into catastrophic climate change and sea level rise. 

RI also talked to the 4p1000 Initiative and the UNCCD about regenerative agriculture's role in combating the climate crisis.

Watch RI's interviews with GSOC17 participants

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