The province has submitted 11 projects to the Federal Government’s Low Carbon Economy Fund.

One of the projects was submitted from the Ministry of Agriculture and focuses on marginal land.

Bill Gruel is the Assistant Deputy Minister for Agriculture and says the Pasture Seeding Project would cost about $6.5 million.

"There are about 900,000 acres of saline marginal land currently seeded to annual crops," he said. "This land is not very productive and does release some CO2 equivalency into the atmosphere, so the intent of this project is to provide a financial incentive to producers to seed this land to grass and then by sequestering additional carbon."

It’s estimated the Pasture Seeding Project would remove about 48 thousand tonnes of annual emissions.

"Greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture sector account for over 20 percent of our provincial emission," Gruel said. "We have to do our part as an agricultural sector to help address that. This is part of what this project aims to do."

The $2 billion Low Carbon Economy Fund is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors.

The 11 projects submitted total more than $200 million in project costs, which have the potential to reduce provincial emissions by as much as 188 million tonnes.