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Agriculture and Forest Land
Plants remove carbon dioxide from the air through a process known as carbon sequestration. Planting trees, practicing sustainable forestry, using conservation tillage on croplands and other agricultural and forestry practices can help slow the growth of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
Many nonprofits and private sector companies and organizations are exploring ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by implementing sequestration and other agriculture/forestry projects. In addition, many state and federal programs support land use practices that help capture carbon dioxide as a by-product of cropland management of soils or forest management for timber. EPA's Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry Web Site provides an overview of EPA-supported analyses of regional, U.S. and international sequestration mitigation options, their potential greenhouse gas and other benefits and their estimated costs.