Healthy soil can store nearly twice the carbon held in the atmosphere, making it a powerful natural climate solution. Yet soil degradation is releasing that carbon back, and around a third of the world's soils are already degraded. The article argues that shifting from intensive farming to practices like agroforestry, cover cropping, and reduced chemical use can restore soil health, boost carbon storage, and help communities adapt to floods and droughts. For carbon markets and climate policy, this matters because soil carbon sequestration offers a measurable, scalable way to offset emissions if done right. But the challenge is verification: how do you reliably track carbon stored in soil over time? The piece makes a strong case for treating land health as climate infrastructure, but the real test will be in the monitoring and accounting methods that back it up.
