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Integrative >> Networks >> Soil Carbon Sequestration Network

The Network’s scope includes:

Estimating potential soil carbon sequestration across spatial and temporal scales, and developing reliable and low-cost monitoring and verification methods
Understanding trade-offs and synergies with non-CO2 GHG emissions, as well as costs and barriers to adoption
Understanding the co-benefits of soil carbon sequestration for soil health and agricultural production
Producing best practice guidance on monitoring soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks over space and time.

Activities include, but are not limited to:

Methods for estimating changes in soil carbon stocks, including monitoring, reporting and verification issues
Assessment across agricultural systems of changes in the soil carbon baseline
Generic methods for assessing soil carbon sequestration potential for contrasted agricultural practices
Assessment of co-benefits for yields, water cycling and climate change adaptation of soil restoration and assessment of impacts on non-CO2 GHG emissions.

Collaborative Partners

The Network has a number of collaborative partners and projects underway with international organisations, including:

The Lima-Paris Action Plan on Soils for Food Security and Climate.
The Global Soil Partnership supported by FAO.
The exploration of remote sensing as a potential tool to support the up-scaling (collaboration with GEOGLAM – the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring initiative).

Contact:

For more information on the Soil Carbon Sequestration Network, please contact Coordinators: Jean-François Soussana ([email protected]) and Pete Smith ([email protected])

Communication

Information relevant to the Network is disseminated through the CIRCASA Newsletters.

Webinars:

Reviewing scientific and technical evidence on soil carbon sequestration – 03/05/2019
Australian Soil Carbon Offset Methods – 26/06/2019
Monitoring reporting verification methods for soil carbon – 20/09/2019
C OMET-Farm tool: USA farms scale modelling– 29th April 2020
Preparing an International Research Consortium on soil Carbon sequestration – Date to come.

Video:

Interviews gathered during CIRCASA 2nd annual meeting, Wageningen, Netherlands, March 2020 Towards an International Research Consortium on Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration.

Publications

Sándor, R., Ehrhardt, F., Grace, P., Recous, S., Smith, P., Snow, V., Soussana, J., Basso, B., Bhatia, A., Brilli, L., Doltra, J., Dorich, C.D., Doro, L., Fitton, N., Grant, B., Tom, M., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Klumpp, K., Laville, P., Léonard, J., Martin, R., Massad, R., Moore, A., Myrgiotis, V., Pattey, E., Rolinski, S., Sharp, J., Skiba, U., Smith, W., Wu, L., Zhang, Q., Bellocchi, G., 2020. Field Crops Research Ensemble modelling of carbon fluxes in grasslands and croplands. F. Crop. Res. 252, 107791.
Smith, P., Adams, J., Beerling, D.J., Beringer, T., Calvin, K. V., Fuss, S., Griscom, B., Hagemann, N., Kammann, C., Kraxner, F., Minx, J.C., Popp, A., Renforth, P., Vicente Vicente, J.L., Keesstra, S., 2019a. Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 44, 255–286.
Smith, P., Calvin, K., Nkem, J., Campbell, D., Cherubini, F., Grassi, G., Korotkov, V., Le Hoang, A., Lwasa, S., McElwee, P., Nkonya, E., Saigusa, N., Soussana, J., Taboada, M.A., Manning, F., Nampanzira, D., Arias‐Navarro, C., Vizzarri, M., House, J., Roe, S., Cowie, A., Rounsevell, M., Arneth, A., 2019b. Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land‐degradation and desertification? Glob. Chang. Biol. 1–44.
Smith, P., Soussana, J., Angers, D., Schipper, L., Chenu, C., Rasse, D.P., Batjes, N.H., Egmond, F., McNeill, S., Kuhnert, M., Arias‐Navarro, C., Olesen, J.E., Chirinda, N., Fornara, D., Wollenberg, E., Álvaro‐Fuentes, J., Sanz‐Cobena, A., Klumpp, K., 2019c. How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal. Glob. Chang. Biol. 1–23.