Agriculture committee  There are definitely two pieces there that you have picked up on. One is the innovation in products. That would be slow-release inhibitors, etc. I'll come back to that in a minute. When I'm referencing low-carbon or carbon-free fertilizers, it's in the production context. We hav

Agriculture committee  One hundred per cent. Agriculture can be a climate leader. I think we owe it to our sector, with the role that sector plays in our economy in Canada, to help make this happen. In everything we've looked at from our work with growers, carbon finance is going to be a key to unloc

Agriculture committee  Yes, we're doing that where we can. Obviously, our sites in North America are co-located with trunk lines. That's the easiest option for us, and we're sequestering many tonnes with that already. Looking beyond that, at a couple of different opportunities beyond those nitrogen s

Agriculture committee  Yes. Water for ag is next up, given that we use 70% of the world's fresh water. Again, those water outcomes, we believe, will be stacked on top of a carbon outcome.

Agriculture committee  Certainly. Where we're using existing protocols—for us right now, that's the NERP and the conservation cropping protocol—I think when those protocols were originally developed, it wasn't with digitization in mind. Right now, we're looking at how we are rebuilding our platforms t

Agriculture committee  It's the verification, yes. That's what I wanted to share with you, too. Even though we're just doing a pilot, we actually have a mock verifier engaged with us, so we can build out the credible pathway as if we were generating a true carbon asset or credit at the end of this grow

Agriculture committee  We've been engaged in many conversations. We talked to ECCC this week and last week. If I had an ask and could be so bold, we need to think like a farmer in this, and not be piecemeal in our approach. While we might have some desire to have protocols be separate, we really need

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I really highly encourage us to be paying attention to what New Zealand and the Netherlands are doing in monitoring methodologies. Our commitment to you is that we are trying really hard to get the data out of the farm level that I think can feed back into really impo

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. The 4R nutrient stewardship is really this suite of best management practices: right source, right rate, right time, right place. They really help us reduce nitrous oxide emissions among other things, such as water quality, etc. The role they have to play and ho

Agriculture committee  We've invested in.... As I mentioned, we're paying growers directly for participation, and for their practices right now, because this is what they need to be ready for. This is what our customers need to be ready to participate in. We anticipate the onset of the carbon market. W

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. When we look at reductions for nitrogen, we look at it from what happens between now and 2030, and then almost from 2030 to 2050. The reason is that there are some technological considerations. If we're going to scale green ammonia, the point at which we'll have

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's stacking the protocols. If I may, I will just for a minute come back to the 4Rs and provide an example, because we're a company involved in implementing the 4Rs. Our experience with growers is that when you take one thing to them that is manual and another process, an

Agriculture committee  What we have been working on through our pilots—and I caught part of the question—is actually to build out new digital tools that help match up with the requirements in the protocols, so it's less manual and really easy on growers, as is the other component, whether that's soil s

Agriculture committee  In our potash operation we have a focus on renewable energy and self-generation/co-generation, because scope 2 emissions are most material in that business unit, but when we look at our corporate footprint and what is most material, it's emissions out of nitrogen production. That

Agriculture committee  The 4R nutrient stewardship, as a suite of best management practices, is built into the protocol to reduce nitrous oxide emissions—the NERP. We would encourage that the NERP be incorporated and then stacked, along with protocols that look at soil organic carbon.