A call for sessions was published in October and applicants were asked to submit proposals on the topics listed below. We received more than 120 proposals. A first draft programme with the selected sessions will be published later in December.
Carbon farming practices for land managers
Practices implementation: concrete solutions, challenges and opportunities for agriculture,forestry and peatlands.
Co-benefits and trade-offs: sharing system views on carbon farming.
Farmer acceptance: what is the value that farmers/land managers give to carbon farming.
Regional/crop-specific considerations: how the local bioclimate, and how the practices that are currently used to grow crops, influence challenges and opportunities for carbon farming.
Practices beyond the farm: how carbon farming interacts with the broader landscape.
Rewarding mechanisms for impactful climate actions
Transformation economy: how rewards take part in a broader, farm-level transition plan.
The Carbon Removal Certification Framework: harmonising standards and recognising schemes to foster transparency and actions.
Types of carbon schemes: practice based, result based, or blended protocols: pros and cons.
Concrete methodologies for carbon farming: balancing the value of a comprehensive approach vs protocols tailored to regional needs and opportunities.
Valorising certificates: sustainability criteria and indicators to go beyond carbon.
Creating stable and predictable demand for carbon farming: reflecting on a market-based climate policy for the agrifood value chain.
Leveraging the power of the value chain: aligning climate pledges, scope 3 reporting and the Green Claim Directive for scaling up carbon farming.
Monitoring and verification tools
Data needs and harmonisation: cost, accuracy and limitations of current approaches to monitor removals.
International initiatives and carbon programmes: experience from carbon farming schemes and standardisation platforms being developed.
Knowledge gaps and emerging technologies: discovering existing solutions and unearthing research & innovation needs in the field of carbon monitoring.
Quantifying carbon claims: baselining approaches for projects, regions and countries.
Towards the EU registry for carbon removals: how to ensure transparency and comparability across different removal types.
Privacy considerations: how to handle the potential public exposure of farm-level decisions on soil and crop management.