Agriculture https://climatejournal.news/ en EU Carbon Farming initiatives aim to fight climate change https://climatejournal.news/news/eu-carbon-farming-initiatives-aim-to-fight-climate-change <div class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item"><span>EU Carbon Farming initiatives aim to fight climate change </span> </div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://climatejournal.news/news/eu-carbon-farming-initiatives-aim-to-fight-climate-change" data-a2a-title="EU Carbon Farming initiatives aim to fight climate change "><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><img src="/libraries/bsp_social_media_icons_share/service/linkedin.svg" border="0" alt="LinkedIn" height="18" class="social-media-links-normal"><img src="/libraries/bsp_social_media_icons_share/service/linkedin_hover.svg" border="0" alt="LinkedIn" height="18" class="social-media-links-hover"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><img 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</div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Topic</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/topic/carbon-management" hreflang="en">Carbon Management</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/topic/eu" hreflang="en">EU</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/topic/agriculture" hreflang="en">Agriculture</a></div> </div> </div> <img width="32" height="32" alt="Business" title="Business" class="img-responsive" src="/files/bsp-images/icons/55.svg" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <img width="32" height="32" alt="Sustainability" title="Sustainability" class="img-responsive" src="/files/bsp-images/icons/52.svg" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <img alt="EU Carbon Farming initiatives aim to fight climate change " title="EU Carbon Farming initiatives aim to fight climate change " class="img-responsive" src="/files/styles/news_full_main_image/public/bsp-images/news/617.jpg?itok=EKpGNvgR" width="687" height="687" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2021 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> </div> </div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2022 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>The Commission published the final report of a two-year study on setting up and implementing carbon farming in the EU.</p> <p>Building on this study and other preparatory work – such as input from several EU-funded projects and events –, the Commission plans to launch the carbon farming initiative by the end of 2021.</p> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bp-columns-two-uneven paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2025 paragraph--width--full paragraph--style--75-25"> <div class="paragraph__column"> <div class="paragraph--type--bp-columns-two-uneven__2col-column1"> <div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2023 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>The study “<a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/10acfd66-a740-11eb-9585-01aa75ed71a1/language-en" target="_blank">Technical Guidance Handbook – setting up and implementing result-based carbon farming mechanisms in the EU</a>”, carried out from 2018 to 2020, explored key issues, challenges, trade-offs and design options to develop carbon farming.</p> <p>The publication reviewed existing schemes about protecting and developing natural carbon sinks and explored how to trigger carbon farming in the EU.</p> <p>It concludes that carbon farming brings benefits such as carbon sequestration and storage, increased biodiversity, and preservation of eco-systems.</p> <p>The research also explored how widespread adoption of carbon farming can be triggered in the EU.</p> <p>This recent study will serve as a guideline to help private actors and public authorities start increasing the number of carbon farming initiatives.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="paragraph--type--bp-columns-two-uneven__2col-column2"> <div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-image paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2024 paragraph--width--full"> <div class="paragraph__column"> <div class="field field--name-bp-image-field field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img alt="" title="" src="/files/bsp-images/paragraph/618.png" width="426" height="599" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Technical Guidance Handbook – setting up and implementing result-based carbon farming mechanisms in the EU</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2026 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>Frans Timmermans Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal said:</p> <p>“Our climate action must first and foremost reduce human-made emissions.</p> <p>But we also need to restore and protect natural carbon sinks, so that we can capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in our soils and forests.</p> <blockquote> <p>Carbon farming offers new income opportunities for farmers.</p> </blockquote> <p>It is an example of how the new Common Agricultural Policy's ecoschemes and private funding can reward agricultural practices that help us fight the climate and biodiversity crises.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-callout paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--width--full callout-style--b" id="callout-2028"> <div class="paragraph__column"> <div class="callout-body"> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2027 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>The Commission will promote carbon farming as a new green business model that creates a new source of income for actors in the bioeconomy.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2029 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>Pilot initiatives should be developed at the local or regional level in order to gather experience to upscale carbon farming.</p> <p>This will enable improving design aspects, in particular the certification of carbon removals, and expanding stakeholders’ knowledge and understanding of the potential benefits for them.</p> <p>The research concludes that result-based carbon farming can contribute significantly to the EU’s efforts to tackle climate change, bringing benefits in terms of carbon sequestration and storage and other co-benefits, such as increased biodiversity and preservation of eco-systems.</p> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bp-columns-two-uneven paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2032 paragraph--width--full paragraph--style--33-66"> <div class="paragraph__column"> <div class="paragraph--type--bp-columns-two-uneven__2col-column1"> <div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-image paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2030 paragraph--width--full"> <div class="paragraph__column"> <div class="field field--name-bp-image-field field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img alt="" title="" src="/files/bsp-images/paragraph/619.jpg" width="600" height="400" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">The Commission will promote carbon farming as a new green business model; Image:Pexels</div> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="paragraph--type--bp-columns-two-uneven__2col-column2"> <div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2031 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>Carbon farming can be promoted via EU and national policies and private initiatives.</p> <p>Member States will be able to accelerate the roll-out of carbon farming practices in the context of the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/cap-glance_en" target="_blank">Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)</a>, for instance, via eco-schemes or rural development support and through State aid.</p> <p>This new type of financial support will create a new source of income for land managers.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="classy-style--margin-bottom paragraph paragraph--type--bp-simple paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--id--2033 paragraph--width--full" style=""> <div class="paragraph__column"> <p>In addition, as announced in the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/environment/strategy/circular-economy-action-plan_en" target="_blank">Circular Economy Action Plan</a>, the Commission is developing a regulatory framework for certifying carbon removals based on robust and transparent carbon accounting to monitor and verify the authenticity of carbon removals.</p> <blockquote> <p>Nature-based solutions that remove carbon from the atmosphere can help the EU achieve climate neutrality and should therefore be rewarded.</p> </blockquote> <p>Depending on the outcome of the CAP negotiations, eco-schemes can bring between 38-58 billion Euro to farmers.</p> <p>The Commission already included carbon farming in its recommendations to the Member States’ CAP Strategic Plans.</p> <p>Pilot projects are also co-financed by the EU through several channels, like the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/life" target="_blank">LIFE Programme</a> and the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/" target="_blank">European Regional Development Fund</a>.</p> <p>Furthermore, the Commission is organising a workshop on 25 May to help Member States design carbon farming schemes in their CAP Strategic Plans.</p> <p> </p> <p class="text-align-right"><span style="font-size:10px">Headline image: Quang Nguyen Vinh from <a href="https://www.pexels.com/" target="_blank">Pexels</a></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-background-style field--type-list-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Background style</div> <div class="field--item">Light</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-sponsored field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Sponsored?</div> <div class="field--item">No</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden field--item">April 2021</div> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:22:13 +0000 Szilvia Szabó 146 at https://climatejournal.news