‣ The Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) regulation (EU-2024/3012) aims at developing a voluntary carbon (C) market for the EU, generating a new ‘green business model’.
‣ ‘Carbon farming activities’, such as improved soil management, afforestation, and peatlands restoration have the potential to store additional C in biogenic pools (or reduce their emissions) in the order of hundreds Mt per year.
‣ In the EU, the biomass and soil pools contain a considerable amount of organic C but changes are difficult to be detected.
‣ The credibility and deployment of a voluntary C market is linked to the level of accuracy of reported C changes, which is directly correlated with the costs.
‣ A new generation of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems would allow lowering the certification costs and create, at the same time, high quality carbon removals cred
‣ Soil and forest inventory data, remote sensing, AI and process-based models can be integrated under a holistic framework dealing with quantification, monitoring, risk assessment and scenario analysis.
‣ The JRC has been funded under a reserved Europe Horizon call (WP 2026-27 Food, Bio-economy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment.) to develop a project called “Improving Monitoring, Reporting and Verification systems (iMRV)” tackling those challenges.
LUGATO Emanuele;
MIGLIAVACCA Mirco;
2026-04-14
European Commission
JRC145825
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC145825,
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