Following the remarkable success of the second European Carbon Farming Summit, held last March in Dublin, the EU Project Credible’s Focus Groups continue to explore key challenges, tensions, opportunities, and potential solutions for advancing carbon farming and regenerative agriculture across Europe. These ongoing discussions have recently resulted in a series of expert reports, now open for public consultation and welcoming insights from all interested stakeholders.
Developed in collaboration with invited experts, policymakers, business representatives, and farmers, the reports address a wide range of topics, focusing on the most suitable practices, standards, and monitoring approaches to successfully deploy carbon farming initiatives in Europe. The documents are available on the project’s website and will remain open for feedback until July 15th.
Don’t hesitate to take a look and share your views with the project’s experts, as these consultations will not only inspire further discussions within Credible’s Focus Groups but are also monitored closely by the Expert Group on Carbon Removals, which supports the European Commission in its efforts to develop the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation.
Topics explored in the public consultations
The main issues under discussion within the project’s Focus Groups are:
- Bridging the gaps between academia, farmers and carbon farming program developers to quantify the on-farm return on investment (ROI) of co-benefits generated by soil organic matter increase, by Andrea Ferrarini (UCSC). Read more here.
- How to avoid threat to food production and biodiversity and support positive synergies, by Pilar Andrés (CREAF) et al. Read more here.
- Conceptualizing fit-for-region carbon farming for the CRCF Regulation, by Kaj Granholm (BSAG), Tatiana Bullová (BEC), and Daniel Ács (BEC). Read more here.
- Ensuring carbon farming delivers sustainability benefits, by Hugh McDonald (Ecologic Institute) et al. Read more here.
- From single farms to nations: is there an optimal scale for robust and viable schemes?, by Clara Diebolt (AC3A) et al. Read more here.
- An effective policy mix for scaling up carbon farming, by Mathieu Mal (EEB). Read more here.
- Barriers and incentives for sharing input-data needed in carbon farming and MRV systems in Europe, by Maria Fantappiè (CREA) et al. Read more here.
- Proximal Sensing in Carbon Farming, by Paulina Rajewicz and Jon Atherton (UH). Read more here.
- Earth Observation for Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of carbon farming - Uncertainty and Benchmarking, by Antonella Sucurro (CinSOIL), Gerry Lawson (EURAF), Mónica Miguel-Lago (EARSC) et al. Read more here.
- Unlocking data for MRV: Data sharing for effective carbon farming, by Hui Xu (ILVO), Tommy D’Hose (ILVO) et al. Read more here.