Soil: carbon sequestration
Besides the ocean, soils are the largest carbon storehouse. With proper management, agricultural soils can even store significantly more carbon than they currently do. Capturing CO2 in the form of soi...
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Carbon Connects
http://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/cconnects-carbon-connects/
Carbon Farming Monitoring and Registry
...L ECONOMIC RENTABIL, Terranis SAS, I4CE - INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE ECONOMICS, HOWEST - Cyber3Lab, Agricarbon UK Limited, Ecologic Institut, University Court of the University of Aberdeen, EURAF
Climate neutral enterprises through carbon storage in agroforestry
General introductionThe project "Climate-neutral farms thanks to carbon storage in forest agriculture" demonstrated that agroforestry can make a valuable contribution to climate goals through carb...
Roadmaps for enabling carbon farming across the EU
Road4Schemes, a project within the broad EJP Soil Program, explored the European roll-out of carbon farming, specifically how to organize it in a successful and context-flexible way.
Smart solutions for carbon farming in northwest Europe
https://smartcarbonfarming.nweurope.eu/blog/news-events-72/future-proofing-farms-in-north-west-europe-with-smart-carbon-farming-231
Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils in Europe
The aim of CarboSeq is to estimate the feasible soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration potential of different management options considering technical and economic constraints in in Europe.
Enabling Carbon Farming in Flanders by establishing a geospatial information system
Carbon farming can contribute to climate change mitigation while increasing the resilience of soils.
Low carbon and energy efficient innovations for more climate neutral greenhouse horticulture
Building momentum and trust to achieve credible soil carbon farming in the EU
General introductionHow can we build trust and momentum for carbon farming practices across the European Union? The CREDIBLE project, an EU Soil Mission project, aims to establish a Network of Net...
Supporting sustainable practices for agriculture with a lower carbon footprint and resilience to climate change.
...pproachThe three actors (scientists, consultants and farmers) are studying different aspects of carbon footprinting and resilience. By sharing their knowledge on climate mitigation and adaptati...
Agroforestry
...ready knows that trees provide a lot of services to society such as: Increased biodiversityMore carbon storage in the soilMitigating the effects of climate changeAir purificationLandscape and r...
Nitrogen
...inning of the next season they can be plowed under, where they also have a beneficial effect on the carbon content of the soil. Nitrous oxide The Global Warming Potential (GWP) of nitro...
Methane emissions in livestock farming (enteric emissions)
Greenhouse gases: a question of balance Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are natural greenhouse gases. They play an important role in the quality of life on our planet ...
Food: Food safety
...re toxins, veterinary drug residues, allergens, antinutritional factors, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals, micro/nanoplastics, ...Chemical molecules in food products require ...
Alternatives to castration of piglets
...Ecologically, intact boars are also the best choice, as their nitrogen and phosphorus emissions and carbon footprint are lower than those of barrows. Moreover, it is no longer necessary to castrate...
EUROPEAN-WIDE NETWORK OF PILOT FARMERS IMPLEMENTING AND DEMONSTRATING CLIMATE SMART SOLUTIONS FOR A CARBON NEUTRAL EUROPE
...ction systems promoted here, the project helps advance EU strategic plans, namely the plan around a carbon-neutral agricultural sector by 2050 and the EU climate strategy. An accessible toolbox of ...
Green carbon webinar 2024
...ed microbial activation of biochar for circular horticulture - Bart Vandecasteele (ILVO) (Green Carbon Webinar Series) Registration: https://www.greencarbonwebinar.org/registration
Developing and testing a framework for the design of harmonized, context-specific Monitoring, Reporting and Verification systems for soil Carbon and greenhouse gas balances by Agricultural activities
How can we properly and efficiently monitor, report and verify changes in carbon stocks in European soils (and in woody biomass), as well as greenhouse gas emissions from soils?
Flanders tackles global warming with carbon removal and carbon farming
Flemish government holds up action platform dedicated to carbon removal and carbon farming and seeks two coordinators.
European Carbon Farming Summit 2026
The 3rd European Carbon Farming Summit will take place from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 March 2026 at the Padova Congress, in the historic city of Padua, Italy.
More info: https://www.carbonfarmingsummi...
Symposium on Marine Carbon Sequestration
...including: negative emission technologies for ocean-based climate mitigation; open ocean biological carbon pumps; restoration and conservation of natural ecosystems; marine bioenergy with carbon ca...
Symposium on Marine Carbon Sequestration
EMBRC-BE and ILVO organize a Symposium on Marine Carbon Sequestration to assess the opportunities of oceans, seas and estuaries in reducing the causes and consequences of climate change, globally and ...
Reliable and cost-effective monitoring of carbon sequestration by carbon agriculture?
Carbon agriculture aims to sequester carbon in soil and woody biomass as a win-win for farmer, climate and society. Carbon agriculture allows the farmer to both work on soil health and receive compens...
Carbon Connects and CANAPE final conference
The EU projects CARBON CONNECTS and CANAPE share the commitment to sustainably re-wetting and restoring peatlands. This 3-day conference brings together European experts, managers, policy makers a...
First carbon measurement Flemish soil. All land uses are useful for carbon sequestration
...Fisheries and Food Research), has been able to measure for the first time in 50 years the amount of carbon in the soil across all land uses. This surprisingly shows that there is no difference in t...
Systematic monitoring of carbon in Flemish soils
...n, the European Union wants to intervene on emissions induced by human activities and/or storage in carbon stocks. In doing so, it puts forward the "no-debit rule" for the period 2021-2030. Specifi...
Save-the-date: European Carbon Farming Summit
Supporting high-level conversations to shape up robust carbon farming markets and policies. It represents a space for sharing knowledge and experiences, upscaling solutions and enabling the multiplica...
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A roadmap for upscaling carbon farming in Flanders
This roadmap is an end product of the LIFE CarbonCounts project, in which ILVO together with the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries has been setting the tone for scaling up effective and viable...
A roadmap for upscaling carbon farming in Flanders
How can we scale up carbon farming in Flanders?
... in practice ILVO and Department of Agriculture & Fisheries stepped together into the LIFE CarbonCounts research project, funded by the Climate Fund and by EU, to chart a course for scalin...
Maize crop residues crucial for carbon in the soil
... balance between removing crop residues and their role in soil fertility and the build-up of stable carbon, a measure against global warming.“ Prof. Steven Key (promoter UGent): "It is becoming...
A system analysis of carbon farming schemes in support of the wider implementation of carbon farming in Flanders (Belgium)
Throughout Europe, numerous carbon farming schemes have been developed in the past decade, ranging from simple to more elaborated. Recently, schemes are increasingly being developed for the agricultur...
Organic carbon content in soils of public domain and private gardens
...n, the European Union wants to intervene on emissions induced by human activities and/or storage in carbon stocks. In doing so, it puts forward the "no-debit rule" for the period 2021-2030. Specifi...
Possibilities for carbon storage under grass and arable land in Flanders
... the soil via animal manure, soil organisms break it down and some is sequestered as stable organic carbon in agricultural soils. Storing one ton of stable carbon in the soil removes 3.7 tons of CO...
First results Flemish carbon monitoring network show importance of correct - deep - sampling.
...is to re-sample the same measuring points in the coming decades. This should allow the evolution of carbon stocks to be visualized and policies to be adapted and monitored accordingly. The network ...