A study on carbon-positive villages in India bats for building the capacities of communities and establishing institutions in villages to scale up and maintain conservation practices and community assets that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Many of these can result in improved water availability, soil fertility, and microclimate through science-backed interventions.
Given that the village folk are much better on average than townsfolk when it comes to "operations & maintenance", and also learn many physical skills fairly easily, rural capacity building for decarbonization and carbon positivity appears to be ideas that can pay rich dividends.
Some of the ideas suggested in the report for carbon-positive villages include:
