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How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage

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Title How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
 
Creator Costa, Ciniro
Dittmer, Kyle M.
Shelton, Sadie W.
Bossio, Deborah A.
Zinyengere, Nkulumo
Luu, Paul
Heinz, Sebastian
Egenolf, Konrad
Rowland, Bailey
Zuluaga, Andrés
Klemme, Julia
Mealey, Tim
Smith, Madelyn
Wollenberg, Eva K.
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
soil
carbon sequestration
carbon
finance
 
Description Key messages
◼ The financial community needs a standardized, low-cost, fit-for-purpose approach to soil organic carbon (SOC) accounting that encourages investment and adapts to the climate market.
◼ To encourage investments, an accounting system should provide “value for money,” align with global goals and support co-benefits, while safeguarding reputational risks.
◼ Building a sequenced approach to improve accounting accuracy requires planning to reduce uncertainties of the accounting systems overtime.
◼ Developing low-cost SOC accounting requires i) focusing on a few high-quality direct measurements (opposed to multiple low-quality measurements), ii) reducing the uncertainty of models, and iii) enhancing capability to easily incorporate farm-level activity data.
◼ Moving to hybrid measurement approaches (a mix of direct measurements with modeling and remote sensing) seems to be the most cost-effective pathway to achieve low-cost SOC accounting systems.
 
Date 2020-11-24
2020-11-24T19:43:20Z
2020-11-24T19:43:20Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Costa Jr C, Dittmer K, Shelton S, Bossio D, Zinyengere N, Luu P, Heinz S, Egenolf K, Rowland B, Zuluaga A, Klemme J, Mealey T, Smith M, Wollenberg E. 2020. How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage. CCAFS Info Note. Wageningen, The Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110284
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
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Format 5 p.
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Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)