Visualising carbon - no mean feat!

This animated film demonstrates the need to protect the long term carbon stored in soils and vegetation as well as reduce carbon emissions. It quite neatly gives you a sense of the quantites of carbon in our atmosphere and soils.

The Peak District National Park Authority, as part of the Live & Work Rural Programme, commissioned ADAS to conduct a pilot project on carbon footprinting and water efficiency audits. The purpose was to inform a revision of the current Environmental Quality Mark Farming Award Standards to include farm carbon and water management. The project involved conducting whole-farm carbon footprinting and water auditing work with ten EQM award holders in and around the park. Each farm received an individual report tailored to their business. The detailed plans enable effective carbon management and the identification of resource efficiency improvements which will lead to cost savings. Here is an animated film demonstrating the need to protect the long term carbon stored in soils and vegetation as well as reduce carbon emissions.