CARBOCERT Operational Group: Quantification and certification of organic carbon in Mediterranean agricultural soils

This Task Force is developing a project to identify management strategies that will increase the carbon sequestered and stored in agricultural soils and in the fixed and enduring plant structures of the main agricultural crops in the Mediterranean region. It will also establish methodologies for quantifying and certifying these uptakes. This takes into account the sector's adaptation needs to the new climate change scenario characterized by extreme weather conditions in the Mediterranean region.

The CARBOCERT project is part of the AEI's objectives for sustainable agricultural productivity, as it contributes to a more competitive primary sector and the supply of more sustainable raw materials for food and non-food use.

From a sectoral perspective, this project targets the most representative crops within the Mediterranean region and at the national level, such as olive groves, wheat, citrus fruits, vineyards, and almonds. All of this takes into account the sector's adaptation needs to the new climate change scenario characterized by extreme weather conditions (increasingly higher temperatures, scarcity and irregularity in rainfall, the presence of extreme events such as frost and hail, etc.).