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The Climate - Soil Community of Practice


This Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) has 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 this Climate-Soil Community of Practice we want to promote awareness of the climate potential of sustainable land management and soil-carbon practices and identify concrete pathways for improvement and implementation. Specifically, we want to advocate increased and concrete consideration of soil organic carbon in relevant interventions and politicy 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.


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:

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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.

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 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.

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