The success of carbon farming in Europe shall be judged on the quantity and longevity of the sequestration of carbon in crops and soils by enhancing carbon capture and/or decreasing the discharge of carbon to the atmosphere. To upscale carbon farming efficiently and to ascertain long-term business perspectives, it is going to be essential to standardise the methodologies and rules for monitoring, reporting and verifying the gains, or losses, in carbon sequestered. Currently, personal schemes apply very different benchmarks and rules to the carbon credit placed on the voluntary markets. It is nonetheless essential to guarantee that credits generated through carbon farming don’t undermine different mitigation efforts and are coupled to a internet long-term benefit by means of GHG emission avoidance.
