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Consulting and leadership on agriculture and land use change and global climate change; and collaboration and consensus building to develop and support voluntary, incentive-based approaches for the agricultural sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing profitability and production of food, feed, and fiber.

Provide strategic and collaborative leadership to a multi-sectoral consortium dedicated to constructive, incentive-based approaches for the agricultural sector to participate in GHG mitigation and adaptation activities that benefit farmers, ranchers, and society. C-AGG helps to craft and support the tools, standards, and approaches to promote policies and programs in support of voluntary measures for the agricultural sector to help mitigate global climate change while benefiting their own operations, productivity, and environmental impacts.

Honored to be leading the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) as we enter the next phase of our collaborative journey developing functioning, viable ecosystem service markets for US agriculture. We are joined by leading US and international NGO's, companies, and experts from across the agricultural supply chain and value chain. Together we are creating tomorrow's ecosystem service markets for agriculture, today. Using the latest science and technologies we are quantifying and monetizing on-farm and regional environmental benefits of enhanced agricultural production systems to the benefit of growers, customers, consumers and the agricultural soils and lands that sustain us. Scaling soil health is our mission; we are starting by quantifying and generating assets and credits for improved soil carbon, net GHG emissions, water quality and water quantity using one integrated protocol developed with farmer and rancher input, and designed to overcome past and current market challenges. By targeting and scaling across millions of acres of working agricultural lands we will have a lasting global impact on climate change and natural resources, creating positive social, economic and environmental outcomes.