The UNEP's Steiner says "farming carbon" this way is far cheaper than new technology to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions at their source.

环境规划署的施泰纳表示，这种形式的“农业碳”比从源头捕获并封存二氧化碳的新技术要廉价得多。

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This rather undermines the notion that vertical farming will save energy and cut carbon emissions, notes Mr Head, who has carried out several studies of the idea.

Head先生指出，这项能源的使用肯定会打破这个观念，就是立体式农场将会节约能源，并会消减二氧化碳的排放，Head先生在这一领域已经展开了数项研究。

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Cadbury's Guide to Low Carbon Dairy Farming deserves recognition for two reasons.

吉百利的低碳乳品业指南值得肯定是由于两个原因。

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As a congressman, senator and vice president, he worked relentlessly toward creating disincentives to the development, testing and use of innovative, safe and potentially important technologies--especially biotechnology applied to agriculture, which has been instrumental in enhancing yields, reducing losses from pests and encouraging farming practices that prevent carbon dioxide release from tilling soil.

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But scientists aren't sure no-till really sequesters carbon any better than conventional farming.

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If successful, the firm believes this type of system could form part of a new approach to sustainable farming, making use of urban greenbelts while helping to reduce the carbon footprint associated with food production -- which accounts for up to 30% of total emissions worldwide, according to a 2008 Greenpeace report.

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