Carbon Farming is a pioneering landscape project, supported by EIT Climate-KIC, which uses a systemic approach to increase soil carbon sequestration (SCS), while also considering the needs of multiple stakeholders and partners, as well as local context. It currently has pilots in France and Switzerland.
The Commission has adopted the forest reference levels (FRLs) for each Member State to apply between 2021 and 2025. FRLs are benchmarks to calculate the sum of greenhouse gas removals and emissions from existing forests in each Member State. CO2 removal from existing forestland is the backbone of the EU land use sink.
The “Wood in Construction Systems Map,” developed by the University of Edinburgh, aims to uncover ways to increase the carbon benefits of wood fibre in UK construction. The map is part of EIT Climate-KIC’s Landscapes as Carbon Sinks Deep Demonstration in Scotland, a project aiming to help the country’s landscape systems decarbonise, adapt and increase resilience to climate change, and foster a bioeconomy—the sustainable extraction and production of natural resources, like wood.
Scientists have created the first ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they bloomed across the surface of snow along the Antarctic Peninsula coast. Results indicate that this ‘green snow’ is likely to spread as global temperatures increase.
To ensure this new calculator provides the most accurate data on supply chain emissions we need to hear views from across the biomass industry to help further improve the modelling and create a high industry standard for emissions reporting. The consolation period will conclude on 12th June 2020.
Using recovered CO2 as a feedstock can boost growth and lower emissions. The market could be worth trillions of dollars. Governments and business leaders can help make this promise a reality.
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, or CCUS, is an important emissions reduction technology that can be applied across the energy system.
