Industrial Hemp

Call to Action

Grown on every continent except Antarctica, Industrial Hemp has the potential to sequester or avoid several gigatons of CO2 per year. Hemp is used for land regeneration, building materials, high protein grain, feed, clothing, paper, medicine, fuels and more.

Hemp is a crop often referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of Climate and UN SDG Solutions. It has the potential to remove and avoid several gigatons of GHGs per year restoring agricultural land (3Gt/yr), building and retrofitting carbon negative, energy efficient homes and buildings, produce healthier food and nutrient rich beef alternatives (1.5Gt/yr), reduced carbon textiles and clothing, bio-composites (.25Gt/yr), batteries, reduced carbon paper & plastics (.25Gt/yr), raise healthier livestock, and reduce deforestation (2Gt/yr) via hemp pellets used in clean cookstoves and BECCS.

Action Items

INDIVIDUALS

Learn how Hemp was a preferred “go to,” natural resource for soil regeneration, building materials, protein, textiles, paper, medicines and more for thousands of years prior to the Industrial Revolution.

Join Hemp CO2llective to help quantify and promote the benefits of Industrial Hemp.

Connect with Hemp Innovators by joining the Global Hemp Association.

Learn how the USDA stated that Hemp produces 4 times more biomass than trees (thereby removing CO2 faster than trees) as early as 1918… making Hemp an intriguing alternative to reforestation and afforestation.

Recognize that the versatile Hemp plant can be utilized in many Regeneration.org Initiatives including Afforestation, Agroecology, Biochar, Buildings, Clean Cookstoves, Clothing Industry, Compost, Degraded Land Restoration, Eating Plants, Palm Oil Alternative, Plastics Industry, Regenerative Agriculture, Wasting Nothing and preventing Deforestation.

Buy Environmentally Responsible and Sustainable Hemp Products.

Try Hemp meat alternatives, now available at 700 stores in the USA. No cholesterol, no CAFE animal abuse, no planet warming methane burps… No guilt.

GROUPS

Governments | Legalize, and even subsidize Industrial Hemp. Reallocate subsidies from carbon intensive fossil fuels to Carbon Negative Industrial Hemp.

City Planners | Mandate Carbon Negative construction, and reduced operating emissions via hemp building materials like Hempcrete and Hemp biochar enhanced concrete.

Smallholder and Subsistence Farmers | Organize Coops and Village Industries to sequester carbon, and process Hemp stalk and grain into products and food.

Industrial Agriculture | Get familiar with hemp now by growing it as a rotation or cover crop.

COMPANIES

Go Carbon Negative Now with Hemp. Your customers care about the environment. So don’t just “commit to Net Zero by 2050” like your competitors. Differentiate your company. Lead your industry, whether you manufacture goods, construct buildings, or feed the world, you can dramatically reduce your footprint or even go Carbon Negative with Hemp.

Clean up Your Act. If your business has contaminated property, phytoremediate it cost effectively with Hemp.

Lobby for Hemp. Direct Air Capture companies can earn up to $180 per ton of CO2 removed, while hemp solutions (like hempcrete and hemp biochar added to soils) are equally permanent and effective. Unlike DAC, Hemp is ready to scale now. Lobby for equal incentives for Hemp.

Key Players

RESEARCH & EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Hemp CO2llective

Cornell University

Oregon State University

SUNY Morrisville

Colorado State

USDA NIFA

Southern Cross University

Hemp Research Consortium

Jame Madison University

UC Davis

Rutgers

University of Vermont

Jefferson University

Lincoln University

University of Kentucky

Kentucky State University

Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University

North Carolina State University

North Dakota State University Variety Trials, Grain Production

Kansas State University

Purdue

Texas A&M University

Prairie View A&M

Tuskegee University

Alabama A&M

Alabama State University

University of Alabama

Florida A&M University

University of Florida

Clemson

Hancock College

Auburn University

University of Connecticut

College of Menominee Nation

Troy University

Southern Illinois University

Advanced Botanical and Biomass Research Institute

Governance

Governments and Corporations alike should consider Industrial Hemp as a strategic resource to help them address the United Nations Strategic Goals.

GOAL 13: Climate Action | One hectare of Industrial Hemp can absorb up to 22 tonnes of CO2. Much of that can then be sequestered long term into building materials and biochar. Less durable goods like paper, biodegradable plastics and textiles can also be made from Carbon Negative, renewable hemp.

GOAL 1: No Poverty | Given similar incentives as Direct Air Capture of $180 per ton of CO2 sequestered, poor smallholder and subsistence farmers around the globe can collectively and profitably sequester gigatons of CO2 by growing and adding hemp biochar and biomass to their soils.

GOAL 2: Zero Hunger | Smallholder and subsistence farmers growing hemp can eliminate hunger in their communities by producing as much as 1 tonne of highly nutritious hemp grain per hectare.

GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being | Hemp grain is exceptionally rich in two essential fatty acids, linoleic acid (omega-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3) and contains as much protein by weight as beef.

GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | Carbon Negative Hemp building materials (and engineered timber) can replace carbon intensive steel and concrete in buildings as tall as 40 stories while reducing operating emissions by 50%.

GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | Hemp stalk biomass made into pellets can reduce deforestation when used as fuel in clean cookstoves and as fuel for BECCS.

GOAL 8, 9 & 12 | Removing 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 from our atmosphere will require making nearly everything we need from carbon negative materials like hemp. This transition will bring about new jobs, economic growth, innovation and growth via consumption of responsible products and services.

GOAL 14: Life Below Water | Hemp requires less fertilizers and herbicides than most crops, reducing chemical runoff into streams and oceans. Hemp textiles are extremely durable, and do not contribute to water born microplastics.

GOAL 15: Life on Land | According to the United Nations, anywhere from 1 to 6 billion hectares of land are currently degraded worldwide, while 29% of the world’s population faces dangerous levels of food insecurity. A current study underway by HempCO₂llective seeks to rapidly reduce world hunger and poverty while simultaneously returning the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO2.