How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Pete
dc.contributor.authorSoussana, Jean‐Francois
dc.contributor.authorAngers, Denis
dc.contributor.authorSchipper, Louis
dc.contributor.authorChenu, Claire
dc.contributor.authorRasse, Daniel P.
dc.contributor.authorBatjes, Niels H.
dc.contributor.authorEgmond, Fenny van
dc.contributor.authorMcNeill, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorKuhnert, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorArias‐Navarro, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorOlesen, Jorgen E.
dc.contributor.authorChirinda, Ngonidzashe
dc.contributor.authorFornara, Dario
dc.contributor.authorWollenberg, Eva
dc.contributor.authorÁlvaro‐Fuentes, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorSanz‐Cobena, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorKlumpp, Katja
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-28T15:38:50Z
dc.date.available2020-05-28T15:38:50Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-30
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 23 August 2019, Published Online - 30 August 2019, Published - 3 January 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThere is growing international interest in better managing soils to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) content to contribute to climate change mitigation, to enhance resilience to climate change and to underpin food security, through initiatives such as international ‘4p1000’ initiative and the FAO's Global assessment of SOC sequestration potential (GSOCseq) programme. Since SOC content of soils cannot be easily measured, a key barrier to implementing programmes to increase SOC at large scale, is the need for credible and reliable measurement/monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) platforms, both for national reporting and for emissions trading. Without such platforms, investments could be considered risky. In this paper, we review methods and challenges of measuring SOC change directly in soils, before examining some recent novel developments that show promise for quantifying SOC. We describe how repeat soil surveys are used to estimate changes in SOC over time, and how long‐term experiments and space‐for‐time substitution sites can serve as sources of knowledge and can be used to test models, and as potential benchmark sites in global frameworks to estimate SOC change. We briefly consider models that can be used to simulate and project change in SOC and examine the MRV platforms for SOC change already in use in various countries/regions. In the final section, we bring together the various components described in this review, to describe a new vision for a global framework for MRV of SOC change, to support national and international initiatives seeking to effect change in the way we manage our soils.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAGRISOST‐CM,Grant/AwardNumber:S2018/BAA‐4330;MinisteriodeEconomiayCompetitividad,Grant/AwardNumber:AGL2017‐84529‐C3‐1‐R;NUEVA;GlobalResearchAllianceonAgriculturalGreenhouseGases;REMEDIA;DanishMinistryofClimate,EnergyandUtilities,Grant/AwardNumber:SINKS2;NewZealandAgriculturalGreenhouseGasResearchCentre;EuropeanUnion,Grant/AwardNumber:774378;DEVIL,Grant/AwardNumber:NE/M021327/1;Soils‐R‐GRREAT,Grant/AwardNumber:NE/P019455/1;CGIARTrustFund;UKERCen_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/137
dc.identifier.citationSmith, P., Soussana, J., Angers, D., Schipper, L., Chenu, C., Rasse, D. P., Batjes, N. H., Egmond, F., McNeill, S., Kuhnert, M., Arias‐Navarro, C., Olesen, J. E., Chirinda, N., Fornara, D., Wollenberg, E., Álvaro‐Fuentes, J., Sanz‐Cobena, A. and Klumpp, K. (2019) ‘How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal’, Global Change Biology. Wiley, 26(1), pp. 219–241. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14815.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1365-2486
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14815
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2019 the authors. This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited.en_US
dc.subjectmeasurementen_US
dc.subjectmonitoringen_US
dc.subjectMRVen_US
dc.subjectreportingen_US
dc.subjectsoil organic carbonen_US
dc.subjectsoil organic matteren_US
dc.subjectverificationen_US
dc.titleHow to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removalen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-08-22
dcterms.dateSubmitted2019-07-13

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