8 Sept. 2021_Joint webinar European Parliament-"4 per 1000" Initiative
Timing:
Wednesday 8 September 2021, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM CEST (Central Eastern Summer Time)
Access (for attendees):
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/95653716709?pwd=eHcwMk5GeUNSbnlNQ3BMdHdkckpuZz09
Webinar ID: 956 5371 6709
Passcode: 571834
(Beware: Speakers have a different link to get connected.)
Subject:
ACCELERATING CARBON FARMING
How to make Carbon Farming a Success for Climate, Environment and Farmers ?
Programme
Welcome and Introductory Remarks (10 min)
Speaker | Organization | Position |
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Mr. Pascal Canfin | Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee) Highlights | Home | ENVI | Committees | European Parliament (europa.eu) | |
Mr. Norbert Lins | Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI Committee) Highlights | Home | AGRI | Committees | European Parliament (europa.eu) |
Key Note Speech: Presentation of the "4 per 1000" Initiative (5 min)
Key Note Speaker | Organization | Position |
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Mr. Stéphane Le Foll | President of the "4 per 1000" Initiative Former Ministry of Agriculture, France (2012-2017) |
Panel Discussion (30 min)
Speaker | Organization | Position |
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Mr. Christian Holzleitner | Head of the Unit Land Use & Finance for Innovation (DG CLIMA.C.3) at DG CLIMA (Directorate General Climate Action) | |
Mr. Stéphane Le Foll | President of the "4 per 1000" Initiative Former Ministry of Agriculture, France (2012-2017) | |
Ms. Claire Chenu | Director of Research Coordinator of EJP Soil "European Joint Programming Co-fund on Agricultural Soil Management" Member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the "4 per 1000" Initiative EJP SOIL - Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils | |
Ms. Anne Trombini | Director Pour une Agriculture du Vivant - Pour une Agriculture du Vivant | |
Ms. Margaret Kim | CEO |
Examples of solution providers with two companies (10 min)
Speaker | Organization | Position |
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tbc | tbc Increase crop yields | Sustainable farming | Indigo Europe (indigoag.eu) | |
Mr. Quentin Sannié or Ms. Adrienne de Malleray | Founder & CEO Public Affairs & Founder |
Q&A (30 min)
Conclusive Remarks (5 min)
Speaker | Organization | Position |
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Mr. Pascal Canfin | Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee) Highlights | Home | ENVI | Committees | European Parliament (europa.eu) | |
Mr. Norbert Lins | Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI Committee) Highlights | Home | AGRI | Committees | European Parliament (europa.eu) |
Framing the discussion
Background
The Green Deal has been marked as the new economic strategy of the Union. It is changing our overall legislative framework to allow the deployment of technologies and unlock the investment that will make possible carbon neutrality, and a new model of prosperity. Agriculture and farmers have an essential role to play since this is the one of the few sectors that has the ability to shift from a net emitter of CO2 to a net sequestered of CO2.
As part of the European Green deal, a series of initiatives can become true game changer: the reform of LULUCF regulation, the Carbon Farming initiative and the regulatory framework for certifying carbon removal.
If we design the framework right, carbon farming can create a new profitable business model and support the transition. The European Green deal offers an opportunity to build a transition profitable for all: farmers would be able to get money for their contribution to climate mitigation, and also additional support to enhance their capacity to stock carbon in farmland, which is ultimately needed if we are serious about being carbon neutral by 2050. This is how we will bring everybody on board with the transition.
Objective of the webinar
During this panel, each speaker will be asked to discuss the following questions:
- How to ensure than carbon farming actually delivers the expected outcome in terms of climate mitigation and biodiversity protection on one side, and on farmers’ additional revenues on the other side?
- How the carbon market, and at which price, can incentivize properly farmers?
- How to ensure permanence of action in order to secure lasting climate action?
- Who would be liable for the proper management and maintenance of agricultural practices benefiting the climate? etc.