DAY 5
You’ve Removed Your Estimated Carbon Emissions for Today
Together with Thanks a Ton
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What is your positive impact today?
Happy World Soil Day! Today, you’ve removed your estimated carbon emissions for this very day with soil carbon removal methods! Soils can hold more carbon than the atmosphere, and healthy soils are full of carbon. Regenerative agricultural practices, such as no-till or cover crops, restore carbon-depleted soils and improve fertility. Removing your carbon emissions with soil carbon sequestration is a great example of how simple changes can have a big impact on the climate, as well as improve agricultural ecosystems and the sustainability of our food supply.
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Why is your impact important?
The clock is ticking: just about 9 billion tons of carbon dioxide must be removed from the air every year in order to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. And carbon dioxide removal via soil carbon removal methods is one way of achieving parts of that. Still, carbon dioxide removal is not an alternative to decarbonizing our economy as quickly as practically possible. However, there are some sources of emissions that are extremely hard to avoid for ethical or financial reasons, and there are already decades worth of excess CO2 in the atmosphere, so the scientific consensus is that carbon dioxide removal is necessary to repair the balance of our climate and society.
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How are we achieving your impact together?
Our impactful partner for today is Thanks a Ton. They create beautiful digital cards with a climate impact, just like removing your carbon emissions today with soil carbon removal methods. In this way, you’ve helped remove CO2 from the air and restored land as a natural carbon sink today.
More About Thanks a Ton
Thanks a Ton was founded in 2021 to combine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) with digital greeting cards to help reverse climate change. In this way, they transform the simple act of sending a greeting card into impactful climate action. Their mission is to build awareness and get people excited about CDR in a fun, friendly, and guilt-free way so that the industry can rapidly scale to drive climate impact.
On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
– Kofi Annan; Ghanaian diplomat, the 17th secretary-general of the United Nations, and co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize
