The Importance of Hemp for a Net Zero Future.
Theme: This talk will show how hemp is an essential environmental tool to sequester carbon, remediate degraded soils, stop deforestation, create jobs and help ignite the circular and bio-economy. It educates on how important Hemp was in our past, and how essential it is for our future survival. We must remove the barriers to growth that are stopping the UK hemp industry from flourishing in a climate vulnerable, coronavirus, post-Brexit landscape.
In 2006, Rebekah launched Hemp Global Solutions Ltd, to rebrand industrial hemp as a major environmental tool for carbon sequestration, and created a new hemp food product called Hempower, made from shelled hempseed and oats. In 2015, she was a consultant to hemp farmers wanting to grow CBD. In 2015, she was a consultant to hemp farmers wanting to grow CBD. In 2019, Rebekah formed the British Hemp Alliance; a group of farmers, academics, NGOs, environmental organisations, businesses and individuals lobbying for progressive changes in hemp legislation, to remove the out-dated political barriers to growth that are preventing the UK hemp industry from thriving.Her work supports the movement to reignite a plant-based economy, using hemp as a carbon offset tool, and manufacturing it into biodegradable and sustainable products, such as biochar and bio-fuels, create jobs and help ignite the circular and bio-economy. Rebekah also educates on the importance of Hemp for our future survival, and to remove the barriers to growth that are stopping the UK hemp industry from flourishing in a coronavirus, post-Brexit landscape.