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

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...

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Main Authors: 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 Karoline
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Language:Inglés
Published: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110284
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author 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 Karoline
author_browse Bossio, Deborah A.
Costa, Ciniro
Dittmer, Kyle M.
Egenolf, Konrad
Heinz, Sebastian
Klemme, Julia
Luu, Paul
Mealey, Tim
Rowland, Bailey
Shelton, Sadie W.
Smith, Madelyn
Wollenberg, Eva Karoline
Zinyengere, Nkulumo
Zuluaga, Andrés
author_facet 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 Karoline
author_sort Costa, Ciniro
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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.
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spelling CGSpace1102842024-01-23T12:03:53Z How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage 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 Karoline climate change agriculture food security soil carbon sequestration carbon finance 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. 2020-11-24 2020-11-24T19:43:20Z 2020-11-24T19:43:20Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110284 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 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).
spellingShingle climate change
agriculture
food security
soil
carbon sequestration
carbon
finance
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 Karoline
How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
title How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
title_full How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
title_fullStr How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
title_full_unstemmed How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
title_short How soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment- oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
title_sort how soil carbon accounting can improve to support investment oriented actions promoting soil carbon storage
topic climate change
agriculture
food security
soil
carbon sequestration
carbon
finance
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110284
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