The 2nd European Carbon Farming Summit brought together key stakeholders to advance the development of robust carbon farming markets and policies across the European Union. The event served as a platform to share knowledge, scale up solutions, and drive climate action at the EU level.
Key Topics & Sessions
The summit featured high-level discussions on:
- Which practices for European soils? – Exploring regional agrosystems, farmer acceptance, co-benefits, trade-offs, and value chains.
- What standards and certification mechanisms? – Addressing quality criteria, baselining, additionality, and offsetting.
- How to monitor carbon fluxes? – Focusing on data harmonization, model calibration, emerging technologies, and monitoring initiatives.
MRV4SOC at the Summit
On March 5th, from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM in the Rose Room, the session “Baseline Approaches for Monitoring Soil Carbon Removals: Public-Private Synergies” took place. Marta Gómez Giménez (GMV) spoke on behalf of the MRV4SOC Consortium, alongside:
- Panos Panagos (JRC)
- Emanuele Lugato (JRC)
- Greet Ruysschaert (MaRViC project)
- Suzanne Reynders (ORCaSa project)
On March 5th, from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM in the Printwork Room and online, the session “Insetting for Carbon Farming: Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Farmers, Food Companies and Policy Makers” took place. Lisa Vanderheyden (Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain) and Goedele Van den Broeck (Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain) contributed on behalf of the MRV4SOC Consortium, alongside:
- Silvia Coderoni, Berit Hasler, and Hui Xu (MaRViC project)
- Sam Wisse (ZLTO)
- Paul Bosch (Friesland Campina)
- Valeria Forlin (DG-Clima)
- Andrew Voysey (Soil Capital)
- Edouard Lanckriet (Agrosolutions)
- Emma van de Ven (Rabobank)
On March 5th, from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM in the Bedford 1 Room, the session “Unlocking Data for MRV: Data Sharing for Effective Carbon Farming” took place. Maria Fantappiè (CREA) and Arthur Monhonval (Soil Capital) spoke on behalf of the MRV4SOC Consortium, alongside:
- Hui Xu (ILVO)
- Tommy D’Hose (ILVO)
- Ella Deroo (ILVO)
- Vassilis Aschonitis (ELGO-DIMITRA)
- Edouard Lanckriet (Agrosolutions)
- Shauna Sadowski (Improvin’)
On March 5th, from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM in the Poddle Room, the session “From peatlands to policy: How praxis can guide EU CRCF certification” took place. The University of Greifswald organised this session and Gerald Jurasinski (University of Greifswald) from the MRV4SOC Consortium was the facilitator. The panelists were:
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Hans Joosten (Greifswald Mire Centre and A-Type Member of the CRCF Expert Group)
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Malte Schneider (Aeco GmbH)
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Lucia Causey-Hugenova (DG-Clima)
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Florence Renou-Wilson (University College Dublin)
On March 6th, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM in the Rose Room, the session “Income opportunities from peatland rewetting: Carbon credits, ecosystem service payments and paludiculture value chains” took place. The University of Greifswald organised this session alongside Aeco, Association des Chambres d’agriculture de l’Arc Atlantique, Eurosite, Green Restoration Ireland, and Social Carbon Foundation.
Follow Online
The online sessions was streamed on the CREDIBLE project YouTube channel: YouTube – Project CREDIBLE.
For more details, visit the official event website: European Carbon Farming Summit.