Structure of the session:

 Opening and framing – 10 minutes

 Presentations – 20 minutes total (4 × 5 minutes)

 Moderated discussion – 50 minutes

 Synthesis and takeaways – 10 minutes

Achieving climate-neutral and resilient land-use systems requires moving beyond carbon to approaches that integrate social, environmental, and economic co-benefits. This workshop explores how these co-benefits can be achieved, financed, verified and governed, linking farm-level practices to land-use strategies and systemic transformation.

This session examines how climate adaptation, natural capital, and social value can be translated into credible action, investment, and reporting, by bringing together perspectives from (1) governance and community engagement, (2) business strategy and decision-making under climate risks, (3) market and policy realities, and (4) outcome-based MRV frameworks.

By using practical examples and through open discussion, participants will explore how combining governance, business innovation, MRV, and finance can scale regenerative and nature-based solutions that deliver tangible co-benefits across Europe.

Contributors:

• Consulai: Maria Mendonça (mmendonca@consulai.com)
• SLM partners: João Roseiro (joao.roseiro@slmpartners.com)
• Soil Capital: Romain Boulet (tbc)
• Land Shift: Ioannis Varvaris (ioannis.varvaris@eratosthenes.org.cy)
• Anew Climate: Novolas Bergler (tbc)

Objective:

To facilitate a discussion on the data and methodological aspects to quantify carbon stock changes associated with carbon farming (CF) activities. The aim is to highlight successful cases and define best practices for operationalization and integration of the methodologies to quantify emissions and removals in baseline and CF activities.

Session description:

Under the EU Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF), a CF should provide a net carbon removal or soil emission reduction benefit to be computed against a baseline.

Baselines can be ‘static’, representing a fixed carbon change rate in relevant biogenic pools (e.g. soil, vegetation) valid for all the activity period or, ‘dynamic’, assessing the evolution of the carbon pools during the project to reflect, for instance, changes in environmental conditions. Moreover, baselines can be ‘project specific’ or ‘standardised’, the latter reflecting performance of comparable practices and processes in similar socio-economic, environmental, regulatory and technological circumstances. Whichever baseline is defined, the ultimate goal is to: i) accurately quantify carbon stock changes (fluxes) from land, ii) relate them to the farming activities at field or regional level and iii) use a consistent approach for calculating the net carbon removal or soil emission reduction benefit.

This session will host case studies that applied unifying and consistent frameworks calculating carbon fluxes from land for both baseline and quantification of CF activities. Studies on agricultural and forest land will be considered, using data-driven or modelling approaches including any kind of hybrid model. We specifically welcome projects that sourced ‘activity data’ at a very high granularity and used it in the monitoring framework.

Session structure:

Key notes from scientists but open to relevant stakeholders (e.g. national governments experts, private service providers certification schemes and verification and validation body opertating in voluntary carbon market).

Presentations + Q&A from stakeholders involved in baseline and CF activity quantifications