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Building on the success of the last event in October 2020, the Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) and the 4 per 1000 Initiative are pleased to announce their next event. The CoP members are professionals in the field of international cooperation and development as well as practitioners looking to improve their technical skills regarding the Climate-Soil-Nexus. The CoP has selected the topic "Monitoring climate benefits of sustainable land management, with a focus on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)" with special attention to different methodological approaches including remote sensing, farmer-led monitoring in the field, monitoring and upscaling of soil organic carbon with a stratification approach, as well as institutional challenges in applying them. Sustainable land management is receiving increasing attention as a promising climate action option. As part of GIZ's Sector Project on Soil Protection, 'climate protection through soil conservation' has been defined as a priority area for its activities from 2020 to 2023. Last CoP-Event provided an insight into the growing voluntary carbon market and the role of soil carbon projects in offsetting emissions. The need of transparent, accurate, consistent and comparable methods for accounting changes in SOC stocks and net GHG emissions remains a challenge, particularly the quantification of the climate effects of sustainable land management interventions. Nevertheless, there are successful pragmatic, farmer-centered approaches, which need to be highlighted to enable collective learning from these experiences. This CoP is meant to provide a space for actors to exchange knowledge and experiences, to present their work, to learn from each other, and to develop partnerships. At this upcoming event, we invite you to go back to the roots of a true workshop format aiming for participatory presentations, hands-on learning, small-group activities and collective problem solving. For the specific topic of monitoring, we propose to address these subjects illustrated by real-life case studies:
Throughout the workshop, the discussion will revolve around these guiding questions:
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