Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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There are some interesting ideas here but I am concerned about the overall frame. It is great to hear about the level of scientific work that is being done and the support for PhDs in some of these areas. Many of the areas our guests have talked about in the context of the mitigation toolkit are straightforwardly reducing emissions rather than trading emissions. I have concerns about the net-zero aspect. There are many measures at which our guests are looking, including soil nutrients, silvopasture and multi-species swards, that contribute to mitigating and reducing gross emissions from these particular areas of agriculture. That is positive and useful. I have some concern about inadvertent effects and perhaps our guests would elaborate in that regard.