Description du projet
Améliorer les calculs de capture du carbone du sol
Le calcul de l’empreinte carbone est une pratique relativement courante. Mais la prise en compte de la capture du carbone repose essentiellement sur des méthodologies manuelles difficiles à mettre à l’échelle. Le projet AgriCapture, financé par l’UE, répond au grand besoin du marché pour des solutions efficaces et rationalisées de capture du carbone, susceptibles d’être employées dans les domaines de l’utilisation des terres, du changement dans l’affectation des terres et de la sylviculture. Plus particulièrement, le projet développera une plateforme systématique, robuste et flexible permettant de quantifier, de vérifier et de promouvoir la capture du carbone du sol. Les résultats seront d’une aide précieuse pour les agriculteurs et les entreprises de l’agroalimentaire, et permettront également aux organismes de certification de développer et d’automatiser leurs processus.
Objectif
"Accounting a climate footprint is an established practice. However, accounting for C capture is largely based on manual methodologies that cannot be easily scaled. The consortium has found a strong market need for a streamlined solution that can be scaled to meet the growing needs of C capture from Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF).
AgriCapture seizes upon Earth Observation – free and open Copernicus data in particular – to deliver a highly innovative, flexible, and scalable solution for soil C capture projects/initiatives, targeting 1 of the 2 only potential mass C sinks through proven and increasingly popular practices (i.e. Reg Agri).
AgriCapture will develop a systematic, robust and flexible platform for quantifying, verifying, and promoting soil C capture, allowing (i) farmers and other landowners to become “carbon farmers”, (ii) food companies to offset their carbon foot print and offer ""zero carbon"" products, and (iii) certifying organizations to scale up and automatize their processes.
This will be accomplished through a co-creation approach with target users – agricooperatives, an agri-processor, a Reg Agri certifier, and an emission balance certifying organisation – within 5 diverse use cases located across Europe. To support uptake of project results, the project will establish a European Reg Agri Community, which will be used to raise awareness of Reg Agri as a high-potential approach to meeting climate pledges, to coordinate and empower farmers as agents of climate mitigation, and to inform product launch of AgriCapture through first-hand market information and a direct channel to potential customers. Finally, the project will also undertake dedicated activities to assess, identify and proactively pursue market opportunities, which will lead to several contracts for post-project service provision by the end of the project.
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11160 BELGRADE-ZVEZDARA
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L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.