Carbon Farming - Using Climate Sinks to Achieve Sustainable Agriculture?

Carbon farming has become a much-cited buzzword in the European and German debate. It refers to the sequestration of CO2 already emitted in agricultural soils. The EU and the German government want to promote such negative emissions in agriculture with various initiatives. What is behind this? How much can carbon farming actually contribute to climate protection and what needs to be done to reduce climate change? In this podcast, EURACTIV Germany asked Bernhard Krüsken, Secretary General of the German Farmers' Association, Simon Kraemer from the nature conservation organisation NABU and the economist Franz Sinabell.