Carbon farming: The foundation for carbon farming schemes – lessons learned from 160 European schemes

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837725002819" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837725002819</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107747" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107747</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Carbon farming: The foundation for carbon farming schemes – lessons learned from 160 European schemes

Original language description

Enhancing carbon sequestration while maintaining and improving the soil ecosystem services of agricultural soils, including managed peatland, is an important lever for mitigating climate change in the Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector. This can be achieved through the application of a mix of agricultural practices that may reward farmers in a green business model, often referred to as carbon farming (CF). To ensure the credibility of CF and acceptance among farmers, investors, and policymakers, there is a need to design CF schemes that enable the effective implementation of such practices across Europe. The objective of this study is to explore the design of existing CF schemes in relation to quantifying carbon removal, ensuring additionality, long-term storage, and sustainability. Further, to discuss the implications for the design and implementation of CF schemes in Europe, including the basis and potential for developing results-based CF schemes. Our analysis is based on an inventory of 160 CF schemes implemented across Europe, and an in-depth assessment of 40 of them. A majority of the schemes we identify are found in Northwestern Europe and are activity-based schemes funded by public expenditure. Further, across schemes, we observe substantial differences in the quality of the carbon removal due to different measures supported, documentation requirements, and years of carbon storage. While result-based schemes provide farmers with a direct incentive to increase carbon sequestration and are emphasized as an important policy objective, our analysis documents that currently, most existing CF schemes in Europe use activity-based incentives.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Land Use Policy

ISSN

0264-8377

e-ISSN

1873-5754

Volume of the periodical

158

Issue of the periodical within the volume

NOV 2025

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001569460500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105015427753