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Griscom et al., 2017; Fuss et al., 2018
Soil carbon has a mitigation potential of 2-5 GtCO2e y-1
Credit: S Malyon, CIAT. L...

Achieving scale
Source: www.saaeoliveira.com.br/noticias/parceria-recupera-area-degradada-na-regiao-de-formacao-do-rio-jac...

How can soil carbon accounting be improved to
support investment-oriented actions promoting
soil carbon storage?

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Session 1 - The need for soil carbon accounting
10:00 – 10:10
Welcome and introduction – Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS
Overview ...

Keynote Speaker
Deborah Bossio
Lead Soil Scientist
The Nature Conservancy
(TNC)

Soil Carbon Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Deborah Bossio
Lead Scientist, Soils and Global Strategies
Webinar 10 Septemb...

Tackle climate
change
Protect land &
water
The Nature Conservancy is a global
environmental nonprofit working to create a
...

Nature
is one third
of the
climate
solution

Soil Carbon
is 25%
of our
natural
solution
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Bossio et al. 2020, Nature Sustainability

Benefits are Large
• On U.S. croplands, building soil carbon can reduce nutrient runoff, CO2
emissions, soil erosion, save...

Challenges
Lack of
awareness and
confidence
Lack of cost-
effective
standardized
approaches to
predict and
monitor changes...

Silvopasture
Colombia
estimated from 2 to 10
tCO2 eq per hectare
local livelihoods forest
protection and restoration

Northern
Rangeland Trust,
Kenya
Grazing Management
37 Mt CO2e over 20 years
Pastoralist livelihoods
Wildlife habitat
PHOTO...

Nebraska Soil
Carbon Project
anticipated enrollment
100,000 acres
to yield 150,000 metric
tons of CO2 eq

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Thank You
Deborah Bossio
Lead Scientist, Soils and Global Strategies
deborah.bossio@tnc.org

Martien van
Nieuwkoop
Global Director Agriculture
and Food
World Bank Group

Martien van Nieuwkoop
Global Director Agriculture & Food
The World Bank
Martien van Nieuwkoop
Global Director
Agriculture ...

The case for Investments in healthier soils in the decade of action.
Agriculture remains fundamental for poverty reduction...

• In 2016/17, 28% of the World Bank Agriculture investment portfolio yielded adaptation and/or mitigation climate Co-
Bene...

Our work on Soil Health aims to increase value generation through soils for farmers,
as a public good and towards a host o...

• The WBG is rapidly scaling up financing and action via Climate Smart Investment Plans (CSAIPs)
• $500bn per year in publ...

Players, priorities and practices for a soil health agenda
• Many stakeholders need to come together to guide action.
• Ma...

Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP)
• The first soil carbon project earning carbon credits
• Pilot project helped 60,...

Colombia: Mainstreaming Sustainable Cattle Ranching Project (CMSCR)
($27m)
Purpose:
• Aimed to promote the adoption of env...

Kazakhstan: Sustainable Livestock Development Program P4R ($500m)
Purpose:
• To support the development of an environmenta...

ACTIONS
1
More technical support is required to help the realigning of public support for delivering
public-good outcomes ...

Keith Paustian
University Distinguished
Professor
Colorado State
University

Keith Paustian
Dept. Soil and Crop Sciences and Natural Resource Ecology Lab
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
So...

Effective policies and market-based solutions need reliable
metrics!
• SOC stocks can be highly variable, spatially, even
...

Lucas EU dataset
Calderon &Cotrufo unpubl.
Consequences for field-to-local scale measurement
Accuracy in direct field meas...

Confidence higher (and uncertainly lower) for more aggregate
scale (sub-regional, regional) estimates
• Legacy of LTEs wit...

Air Parcel Air Parcel
Air Parcel
Sources Sinks
Sample
Sample
Changes in CO2 in the air
tell us about sources and
sinks in ...

Goal : Low-cost estimates with low bias and ‘moderate’
uncertainty at ‘project’ scale
• Focus on high quality direct measu...

Integrated measurement-modeling-activity data platform

Remote sensing of management
activity data
• Tillage & Residue Coverage
• Crop type, cover crop presence
• Flooding
Guan e...

Integrated measurement-modeling-activity data platform

User-friendly decision support systems
http://comet-farm.com/
http://comet-planner.com/

Enhancing investment in soil health and
carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance
and carbon accounting
10 September
2...

Break
10:55 – 11:05 EDT
10 minutes
Enhancing investment in soil health and
carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance
a...

Session 2 – Soil carbon accounting frontiers
11:05 – 11:15
Verra - Development and management of standards for sustainable...

Stefan Jirka
Innovation Manager,
Agriculture
Verra

Verra
10 September 2020
Development and management of standards for
sustainable agriculture and climate action goals
Stefa...

Verra catalyzes measurable climate action and sustainable
development outcomes by driving large-scale investment to activi...

Verra is a Global Leader in Offset Markets
Source: World Bank Group,
State and Trends of Carbon
Pricing 2020, May 2020
Ann...

• 10+ projects registered or in the pipeline, e.g.
• Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project VM0017
• Montana Improved Grazing P...

Verra Efforts on SOC Accounting
11 September 2020
• Expert Ag Land
Management Working
Group (ALM WG)
• New accounting
meth...

Constraints to Ag Project Development
11 September 2020
• High variability
• Current carbon prices
• Behavior change
• Lan...

Actions Verra is Taking to Overcome Constraints
11 September 2020
• Standardized methods to
determine additionality
• Non-...

• Expanded soils
databases to set
baselines
• Tech approaches to lower
MRV costs
• Models accessible to a
range of users
•...

Soil Health Benefits Beyond Carbon
11 September 2020
+ SDGs

Verra
1 Thomas Circle, NW
Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20005
www.verra.org
Thank You!
Questions?
sjirka@verra.org

Dan Harburg
Vice President, Head of
Carbon Quantification
Indigo

Unlocking carbon markets through
research and entrepreneurial
community efforts
Dan Harburg, Ph.D.
Vice President, Head of...

2Confidential © 2020 Indigo
… by focusing on
improving farmer
profitability
… by improving the
sustainability of
agricultu...

3Confidential © 2020 Indigo
Connects farmers implementing
carbon farming practices that prioritize
soil health and carbon ...

4Confidential © 2020 Indigo
The Indigo Carbon marketplace has four key components
that are advancing simultaneously
Quant....

5Confidential © 2020 Indigo
Growers enroll in
Indigo’s carbon
offset program
Indigo establishes
baseline
1
Indigo supports...

6Confidential © 2020 Indigo
We have developed a carbon quantification methodology that
enables unprecedented scale and rig...

7Confidential © 2020 Indigo
The Terraton Challenge was launched at Beneficial Ag 2019 to
focus innovators soil carbon sequ...

8Confidential © 2020 Indigo
We are evaluating 30 of the most promising companies,
selected from a over 260 applicants from...

9Confidential © 2020 Indigo
The Terraton Experiment is producing a comprehensive soil and
grower dataset on each sampled f...

10Confidential © 2020 Indigo
In 2019, Indigo began sampling for an observational study
Indigo has completed sampling on 59...

11Confidential © 2020 Indigo
In 2020, Indigo is adding 50 interventional study sites
This study aims to understand the imp...

William Salas
President
Dagan, Inc

Linking Remote Sensing and
Modeling to Build the Business
Case for Soil Health
William Salas, Dagan Inc
Session 2 - Soil c...

High transaction cost for verification of
market assets
Barrier: Agriculture stakeholders lack the soil health
insights an...

OpTIS DNDC
Operational Tillage
Information System
Biogeochemical
Model
Measures how the environment responds
to management...

Unique combination of technologies for quantifying soil health
outcomes for supply chain reporting and MRV for ecosystem
s...

Dagan Data Services - OpTIS and DNDC
Sub-field seasonal residue cover Field-level tillage practices Modeled annual SOC cha...

Dagan AgTech for Monitoring, Verifying and Quantifying Soil Health
Principles of Soil Health Management:
Ø Crop rotations
...

Supporting Innovative Finance: tracking crop risk:
Prevent Plant 2019 Analysis
Initial indications that conservation pract...

Dagan working with ESMC
and ARPA-E on innovative
SOC measurements
Demonstration
through
Ecosystem Service
Markets Pilots
I...

Increased farmer adoption of soil health
management: increased soil carbon and
ecosystem resilience
Enhanced crop profitab...

Aldyen Donnelly
Co-founder and Director
of Carbon Economics
Nori Inc.

Carbon Removal and True
Price Discovery
Aldyen Donnelly, co-Founder and
Director of Carbon Economics, Nori Inc.,
https://n...

Nori is building a dedicated
“Carbon Removal Marketplace”
• Head-officed in Seattle, Washington, & relies on
100% private ...

Starting with US Croplands
• Nori intends to approve CO2 capture and retention
estimation and NRT quantification methodolo...

Global soil carbon storage
potential

US soil carbon storage
potential
# description data source
400
total US cropland acres in 2018
(millions), not all of whic...

Nori is the first carbon market to...
• Support both retail and wholesale carbon credit sales. (Small
credit buyers can di...

Contribution of this method
• Direct access to small (“retail”) NRTs purchasers and
reduced verification costs means suppl...

Nori market performance, to date
• Started on-line retail NRT sales in fall of 2019.
• ~16,000 NRTs sold, to date @ US$17....

Conclusions
Check us out!
https://nori.com/

Enhancing investment in soil health and
carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance
and carbon accounting
10 September
2...

Break
12:00 – 12:10 EDT
10 minutes
Enhancing investment in soil health and
carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance
a...

Session 2 (continued) – Soil carbon accounting frontiers
12:10 – 12:20
Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) - ESMC’...

Debbie Reed
Executive Director
Ecosystem Services Market
Consortium (ESMC)

ESMC’s Public Private Partnership:
A Market Meeting Demand for Certified Soil C, Net
GHG, Water Quality & Water Quantity C...

To advance ecosystem service markets that
incentivize farmers and ranchers to improve
soil health systems that benefit soc...

Ecosystem Services Markets for Agriculture
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Ecosystem Services Markets Conceived &
Designed…
Ø …for Agriculture
Ø …to ov...

ESMC/ESMRC Members
Founding Circle
Members
Legacy Partner
Members
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7-8-2020
$10.3M
FFAR
$10.3M
cash & in-
kind
match
Tot...

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ESMC Pilot Project Locations
Launched
Planning
Emerging

Soil Organic Carbon MRV for Finance
ESMC soil C quantification protocols: Calculate uncertainty!
• Soil C testing at enrol...

Soil Organic Carbon MRV for Finance
ESMC/ESMRC SOC & GHG Investments:
• Open-source SOC sampling stratification app
• Mult...

Soil Organic Carbon MRV for Finance
ESMC Infrastructure
• National scale programmatic investments
• Track impacts at field...

THANK YOU
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CONTACT US:
dreed@ecosystemservicesmarket.org
https://ecosystemservicesmarket.org

Beverley Henry
Adjunct Associate
Professor
Queensland University of
Technology;
4p1000 Scientific and
Technical Committee
...

Pamela Bachman
Digital Agriculture &
Sustainability Lead
The Climate Corporation,
a subsidiary of Bayer

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The Climate Corporation
and Climate FieldViewⓇ
The Climate Corporation
Pamela Bachman, Ph.D.
Digital Ag & Sust...

Global Crop Production Demand is Climbing
103
UNDESA 2017 (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Popul...

The Climate Corporation
104
The next
breakthrough
in agriculture will be
utilizing data and
analytics to
optimize decision...

Setting the Standard with a Global, Integrated Platform
Climate FieldView™
105
Data In One
Place
Valuable Field
Insights
O...

Continuous Circle of Value Creation from Richer Data Sets, Leading to Smarter Digital Tools
Data is Digital Currency to Bu...

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32 Months
9 Months
ConnectedHours(Millions)
FieldView Bringing in More Data … Faster
Streamed data more than doubled i...

Pre-Planting:
Seed Scripting
& Seed Advisor
During Planting:
Data capture & real-
time data visualization
In-Season:
Captu...

109
Y = f (g,e,p)+ εYield Genetics, Environment,
Farming Practices
Variability
109

Sustainability & The Climate Corporation
110
The Climate Corporation
advances sustainability
globally by delivering digita...

111
How
Estimate potential emission
reduction through optimal
timing, nitrogen rate, and
tillage practice
recommendations
...

Ronald Vargas
Secretary Global Soil
Partnership
Global Soil Carbon
Partnership - FAO

RECSOIL: recarbonization of
global agricultural Soils
Ronald Vargas, Secretary of the Global
Soil Partnership, FAO
Session...

Soil is a valuable natural capital, but….
one third of our global soils are degraded

SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT
AND SOC IN THE GLOBAL AGENDA
2019 2017
2017
2015
2012
Scaling up
actions on
the ground

The current global challenges
Desertification, drought, Land
degradation
Protecting, conserving, restoring Biodiversity
Cl...

The problem
• Uncertainty about additionally and
permanence.
• Measuring SOC: not an easy and
cheap task, accuracy.
• Unav...

1. Technical feasibility (current stocks-potential)
GSOCmap – current stocks
COUNTRY
GSOC Map
Monthly Vegetation cover
NDV...

4. Agreement to work with RECSOIL/ access to
RECSOIL toolkit
Written Agreement between individual farmers or farmer associ...

5. Implementation of Good SOC Practices (technical
support and financial incentives)
• According to the local
context, sel...

6. Measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification

6. Measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification
• Measurement of Baseline at farm
level (before good practices are
im...

7. RECSOIL MARKET PLACE
• Green-path to support subsistence/small
farmers. They will accomplish multiple
ecosystem benefit...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
For more information, please contact
Ronald.Vargas@fao.org

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