FMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer: Farmers Can Be Climate Heroes
“We want farmers to be the heroes in all this,” says FMC’s new Chief Sustainability Officer Julie DiNatale.
“They're not just emitters. They can be pulling down a tremendous amount of carbon and storing it in their soils.”
At the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, DC, DiNatale spoke to The Point Cloud, Agerpoint’s interview series featuring leaders at the intersection of climate, agriculture, nature, and technology.
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“If you look at the amount of land and production, if every farmer was given the opportunity to do cover cropping no-till, using the best plant health products, using the most targeted pest and fungicide and herbicide products, we'd be in a great spot,” says DiNatale. “And agriculture would be the heroes.”
Net Zero Goals
FMC has ambitions to be heroic itself, with a goal of being net-zero by 2035.
“Coming in as the new Chief Sustainability Officer, one of the things I've noticed the most is that our teams across our 6,500 folks across the globe are all in sustainability.”
The company, which manufactures products to protect crops from pressures like fungus, insects and weeds, is mobilizing its entire workforce, including engineers, procurement professionals, government affairs teams, and R&D personnel on the road to net zero.
“There's low-hanging fruit right now” from reducing waste and using biofuels, says DiNatale. Long-term, the company is looking to wind and solar power.
As FMC looks from the AIM for Climate Summit toward COP 28 and the role of agriculture in the climate conversation, DiNatale is optimistic.
“We need to keep carrying this on and actually have activities with boots on the ground, doing the hard work,” she says.
“We can get together anywhere in the world and have great collaboration, great conversations. But at the end of the day, it changes when companies and other entities with influence have projects on the ground that move the needle and help everyone.”
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