Soil Organic Carbon MRV Sourcebook for Agricultural Landscapes
Despite the significant potential of soil to sequester organic carbon, there are challenges to implementing carbon sequestration projects. For example, changes in soil carbon can be relatively small in magnitude per unit area and slow to be fully a...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/948041625049766862/Soil-Organic-Carbon-MRV-Sourcebook-for-Agricultural-Landscapes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35923 |
| Summary: | Despite the significant potential of
soil to sequester organic carbon, there are challenges to
implementing carbon sequestration projects. For example,
changes in soil carbon can be relatively small in magnitude
per unit area and slow to be fully achieved, while its
measurement and monitoring can be difficult and costly
depending on the focus of the assessment. This sourcebook is
designed to provide a conceptual foundation for soil organic
carbon measurement and monitoring in croplands and grazing
lands or rangelands. It provides methods and simple
step-by-step guidance to produce reliable soil carbon
measurements across a variety of settings and contexts, with
comparisons on what frameworks, approaches, or methods to
choose relative to the goal of the assessment, costs,
feasibility, and uncertainty. Although greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions (methane, CH4, or nitrous oxide, N2O) associated
to agricultural land management can be significant and must
be assessed to calculate total net GHG reductions of a
project, this sourcebook focuses on soil carbon and
specifically changes in soil carbon in agricultural lands
that are a direct consequence of land management. Chapter
one introduces soil carbon and the agricultural practices
that enhance carbon stocks, chapter two presents an overview
of how users should select a soil carbon assessment
methodology. Chapter three is split into modules providing
detailed guidance on the decision points related to
designing and implementing a soil carbon assessment system
based on the needs of the user and the focus of the project. |
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