OGCR
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Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry - Open-Source Tools for Connecting EU Agricultural Policies (CAP) and Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation to national inventories and carbon markets
Total cost € 11 499 995.00 EU contribution € 11 499 995.00 Funding Programme Horizon Europe - Mission Soil

The Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR) aims to create:
1) updateable baseline geospatial layers for soil, biomass and peat for pan-EU,
2) a hybrid modelling framework to explore management changes in CAP and CRCF initiatives, and
3) a globally applicable open geospatial carbon registry, servicing pan-EU.

We will use a genuinely transparent stakeholder co-design & consultative development process to build software interfacing between CRCF and CAP activities with mandatory and voluntary markets. Above and below ground carbon reduction and farming activities will be measured, monitored and independently verified. The system will attract both small and big landholder participation through:
1) an innovative geospatial carbon accountancy framework that fairly rewards landholders for avoiding and sequestering carbon over generations,
2) applicability to all lands independent of management, and
3) easy access to geospatial information on past, present and possible future states for soil carbon, biomass and peat soils under different managements.

Geospatial hazards and risks, including those related to climate change, will be scientifically based and user accessible. Economic and environmental impact evaluations will be widely available to aid landholders and project developers to assess potential for entering the nascent EU CRCF markets. OGCR will rely on an underlying statistical unification of common MRV approaches, both direct measurement, modelled and hybrid approaches, through their uncertainty metrics; and on a socially responsible and ecologically valid economic framework for their temporal valuation through time. OGCR will be built in the open view of the stakeholder community by the open source community, under scientific supervision and iteratively developed. OGCR will be free and clear of any restrictive copyright for claims, licensed under permissive Creative Commons licenses and connected to vendored services in a free-market dynamic.

HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01

Thematic areas

Carbon farming Soil monitoring and indicators

Project contribution to Mission Soil’s:

Specific objectives

  • 1. Reduce land degradation relating to desertification
    Not targeted
  • 2. Conserve and increase soil organic carbon stocks
    Targeted
  • 3. No net soil sealing and increase the reuse of urban soils
    Not targeted
  • 4. Reduce soil pollution and enhance restoration
    Not targeted
  • 5. Prevent erosion
    Not targeted
  • 6. Improve soil structure to enhance habitat quality for soil biota and crops
    Partially targeted
  • 7. Reduce the EU global footprint on soils
    Not targeted
  • 8. Increase soil literacy in society across Member States
    Not targeted

Operational objectives

  • 1. Build capacities and the knowledge base for soil stewardship
    Not targeted
  • 2. Co-create and upscale place-based innovations to improve soil health in all places
    Not targeted
  • 3. Develop an integrated EU soil monitoring system and track progress towards soil health
    Targeted
  • 4. Engage with the soil user community and society at large
    Not targeted

Innovation hotspots

  • 1. Carbon farming
    Targeted
  • 2. Soil pollution and restoration
    Not targeted
  • 3. Soil biodiversity including the microbiome
    Not targeted
  • 4. Circular economy solutions
    Not targeted

Cross-cutting dimensions

  • 1. Business
    Not targeted
  • 2. Digital
    Partially targeted
  • 3. Territorial
    Not targeted
  • 4. International
    Not targeted

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