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.