Jeanne Merrill

Policy Director, California Climate Agriculture Network

It is not enough [for farmers] to be environmentally sound. You have to have the economic viability as well as the social responsibility.

As California Climate and Agriculture Network's Policy Director, Jeanne Merrill believes that agriculture can play a constructive role in responding to the climate crisis by reducing its carbon footprint.

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Climate One Appearances

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Crops, Cattle & Carbon

California’s 81,000 farms and ranches account for 6 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Making the farms more energy efficient, and ensuring that farmers can adapt to a warmer planet, will be a decades-long challenge, agreed a panel of experts gathered by Climate One, in San Francisco, on June 14.