Year in Review: With growing attention on climate change solutions, hemp has role to play

[Last in a series of the most popular stories on HempToday in 2023] 

As governments give at least greater and greater lip service to environmental problems through initiatives like the Congress of Parties (COP), and begin to fund sustainability projects, hemp has great potential to reverse climate change. CO2 mitigation, carbon accounting and carbon production based on hemp are all getting more attention. By category, the environment was the fourth most popular topic among HempToday readers in 2023. Here are the top stories:

Shortage of certified carbon credits is opportunity for hemp, new report says

UK project will explore environmental, business cases for hemp, other crops 

Hemp on par with wood in ability to capture and store greenhouse gas

Sustainability benefits can be lost if hemp textile production follows conventional ag

How hemp operators can avoid the carbon accounting scammers