Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
The systems that generate our food, if all inputs are included, represent 25 to 30% of global GHG emissions. The agricultural sector generates 10% of Canada’s GHG emissions, with the majority traceable to beef production and the intensive use of nitrogen fertilizers. Building a more resilient regenerative farming ecosystem will result in a significant increase in ecological goods and services (EGS), including food, water, timber, and services such as water filtration, flood protection, wildlife habitat conservation and GHG sequestration. We can have a more nutritious, lower-carbon food supply and enhance biodiversity, while adding thousands of jobs to local communities. This session details a 30% reduction in agricultural emissions by 2030, and a 50% cut by 2050, through the implementation of existing practices and technologies and an investment equal to 0.1% of annual GDP, per the Build Back Better farming and forests model.
Moderator:
Toby Heaps
CEO, Corporate Knights
Panellists:
Terrylynn Brant
Founder, Mohawk Seedkeeper Gardens
Gary Csöff
Senior Digital Agribusiness Consultant, IBM
Doug Falck
Organic Program Manager, Nature’s Path Foods Inc.
Gillian Flies
Partner, The New Farm Inc.
Adam Noble
CEO, Noblegen
Darrin Qualman
Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action, National Farmers Union (Canada)
Ralph Torrie
Director of Research, Corporate Knights
The systems that generate our food, if all inputs are included, represent 25 to 30% of global GHG emissions. The agricultural sector generates 10% of Canada’s GHG emissions, with the majority traceable to beef production and the intensive use of nitrogen fertilizers. Building a more resilient regenerative farming ecosystem will result in a significant increase in ecological goods and services (EGS), including food, water, timber, and services such as water filtration, flood protection, wildlife habitat conservation and GHG sequestration. We can have a more nutritious, lower-carbon food supply and enhance biodiversity, while adding thousands of jobs to local communities. This session details a 30% reduction in agricultural emissions by 2030, and a 50% cut by 2050, through the implementation of existing practices and technologies and an investment equal to 0.1% of annual GDP, per the Build Back Better farming and forests model.
Moderator:
Toby Heaps
CEO, Corporate Knights
Panellists:
Terrylynn Brant
Founder, Mohawk Seedkeeper Gardens
Gary Csöff
Senior Digital Agribusiness Consultant, IBM
Doug Falck
Organic Program Manager, Nature’s Path Foods Inc.
Gillian Flies
Partner, The New Farm Inc.
Adam Noble
CEO, Noblegen
Darrin Qualman
Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action, National Farmers Union (Canada)
Ralph Torrie
Director of Research, Corporate Knights
