American Farmland Trust Releases Updated CaRPE Tool

Earlier this week, American Farmland Trust released its updated Carbon Reduction Potential Evaluation Tool.  The announcement includes the first of a series of briefs to help states estimate greenhouse gas emission reduction opportunities from the climate-smart cropland and grazing land management practices.

The tool and state-specific briefs, which summarize the carbon benefits of climate-smart practices and provide state and federal policy recommendations to increase their adoption, are now available.  These briefs are designed to help policymakers and land managers prioritize efforts for cost-effective climate benefits available from the agricultural sector.  The tool has been available from AFT since the fall of 2020 and used by states to build working lands solutions into climate mitigation plans and state soil health efforts.

Recent updates to the tool allow users to view data by USDA Farm Resource Regions and see results by counties and states and get the weighted emission reduction coefficient. Visit Farmland's Website for additional information on the free tool.

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