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The Climate - Soil Community of Practice
This Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) has jointly been
The core concern of this Climate-Soil Community of Practice
is to
raise the awareness of the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of sustainable land management and
SOC enriching practices and identify concrete pathways for improvement and implementation.
Its aim is to disseminate information on successful
projects in the area of SLM and carbon sequestration, highlight good practices for overcoming adoption barriers and strengthen the case for sustainable land management as a key to effective climate action.
After the launch of this CoP a first event took place in October 2020.
- “Creating an Enabling Framework for Carbon Market Projects for Soil Protection” was our first event, which took place on three afternoons. You can find more information here.
After this, we had a few meetings with the first members of our community, getting to know each other and exchanging on hopes and visions for the CoP. We then continued with events on specific topics:
- April 2021: Monitoring Climate Benefits of Sustainable Land Management with a Focus on Soil Organic Carbon
- October 2021: Which incentive instruments exist to encourage farmers to adopt SLM practices and how can they be addressed in a project context?
In addition, we advocate for increased and tangible consideration of SOC in relevant interventions and policy processes, such as the National Determined Contributions (NDCs).
The Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) provides a platform for collaboration and peer-learning amongst its members and offers an open space for discussion and creative thinking.
Please register here: Registration for the Climate-Soil Community of Practice
Roadmap for 2022
Here you can already find a rough timetable for our events next year:
- January: Follow up event to the October meeting on incentives for sustainable Land Management
- March: Panel discussion on the chances and risks related to carbon sequestration in soils
- May: Remote sensing techniques for SOC quantification
- September: Climate financing and carbon farming
- November: Sustainability aspects of Biochar
To all the project proponents or project developers who registered a carbon project with a carbon farming standard:
We are looking for your experiences: Which standard did you choose and why? How is it working? What challenges are there?
Please fill out the short, anonymous survey here:
--> Survey
This survey is part of a study conducted by the Carbon Markets (A5) Task Force of the 4p1000 Initiative.
Input from Members
We always welcome input from our members. If you would like to present your project or topic at one of our events or organize an event yourself as part of the Community of Practice - please get in touch with Julia.Klemme@4p1000.org
.
If you would like to share information, websites or papers with the community, we would also be happy to hear from you. You can simply upload them directly yourself (please use the edit button on one of the already existing thematic pages here) or send them to Julia.Klemme@4p1000.org
.
You can find already shared information of our members here: Knowledge Products