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The Climate - Soil Community of Practice


This Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) has jointly been

jointly

launched by the “4 per 1000” Initiative on soils for food security and climate and the GIZ Sector Project Soil Protection, Combating Desertification, Sustainable Land Management (BMZ) in 2020.

With

The core concern of this Climate-Soil Community of Practice

we want

is to

promote

raise the awareness of the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of sustainable land management and

soil-carbon

SOC enriching practices and identify concrete pathways for improvement and implementation

. Specifically, we want to advocate increased and concrete consideration of soil organic carbon

. 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.

In addition, we advocate for increased and tangible consideration of SOC in relevant interventions and

politicy

policy processes, such as the National Determined Contributions (NDCs).

The

"

Climate-Soil Community of Practice

"

(CoP)

aims to disseminate information on successful land management and soil carbon projects, highlight good practices for overcoming adoption barriers and strengthen the case for sustainable land management as a key to effective climate action. While "4 per 1000" facilitates related activities at the global level, this "community of practice" focuses on the development cooperation context.

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

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:

.


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
We will keep you up to date here and will update the data and topics here regularly.

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

  or Valentin.Pohlmann@giz

.

de.

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

  or Valentin

.

Pohlmann@giz.de. 

You can find already shared information of our members here: Knowledge Products

Background

Healthy soils are vital for our environment and food systems. They are fundamental for food security and biodiversity, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and help with adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change. Nature-based Solutions that increase the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) can significantly reduce the CO2-concentration in the atmosphere related to human activity, while contributing to fertile soils and suitable habitats for micro and macro fauna. Herewith, they are a crucial element to meet the targets of international agendas, like the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Even though the potential of sustainable land management (SLM) and soil carbon is increasingly recognized at the international level, upscaling of soil-carbon practices on a broader scale is not yet achieved

Please klick here for more information about the Climate-Soil Community of Practice.