As a key component of the Green Deal, in December 2021, the European Commission adopted a Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles in which it promotes the upscaling of carbon farming as a green business model and sets out a series of short to medium-term actions to address current challenges to achieve this.
The first meeting of the Thematic Group on Carbon Farming focussed on sharing examples of European good practices and promising initiatives on carbon farming, discussing how these can be upscaled using the CAP and what the key enablers and barriers are to doing this.
This second meeting built on the Thematic Group activities so far. It looked at how to demonstrate the success of initiatives in sequestering carbon and agreed what conditions need to be put in place to enable the upscaling of carbon farming in all parts of the EU.
Aims of the meeting
- To explore good practices in measuring and reporting on carbon sequestration and storage for different carbon farming practices.
- To reflect on the conclusions from the TG member discussions on 18 May on:
- The mix of financial incentives required to increase uptake of carbon farming activities;
- Raising awareness and building capacity amongst land managers, advisers, stakeholders, and Managing Authorities on carbon farming.
- To develop recommendations on the conditions required to enable the upscaling of carbon farming.
Background documents
