Driving Sustainable Agriculture: ReForest at the European Carbon Farming Summit 2025

The ReForest Project is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming 2nd European Carbon Farming Summit, scheduled for March 4–6, 2025, at Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland.

This summit serves as a pivotal platform for advancing carbon farming practices across Europe, aligning seamlessly with ReForest’s mission to promote sustainable land management and agroforestry solutions.

The summit will focus on three main sessions:

• Which practices for European soils?

This part of the conference will be dedicated to exploring regional agrosystems, focusing on farmer acceptance, the co-benefits and trade-offs of practices, and the development of value chains.

• What standards and certification mechanisms?

The session will delve into quality criteria, baselining methodologies, overlapping schemes, additionality, and the implications of offsetting and claims.

• How to monitor carbon fluxes?

In this session the main focus will be on data harmonisation, model calibration, emerging technologies, remote sensing techniques, and monitoring initiatives.

These topics are integral to the ReForest Project’s objectives, particularly in enhancing carbon sequestration through agroforestry and developing robust monitoring and verification systems.

ReForest’s Contributions at the Summit:

• Posters by the University of Copenhagen (UCPH):
  • Comparative Carbon Stock Quantification in Diverse Agricultural Systems: Paving the Way for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Harnessing Soil Organic Carbon: Unlocking Benefits for Crop Productivity and Climate Resilience with Agroforestry Systems
• Workshop Participation:
  • Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of Agroforestry Carbon Farming Schemes: Rico Hübner from the German Association for Agroforestry (DeFAF) will represent ReForest in this workshop. The session will focus on MRV of agroforestry carbon farming schemes, including environmental and social issues. It will build on the EURAF typology for agroforestry practices (see EURAF Policy Briefing #1)—identifying eight types of agroforestry—and will focus on agricultural land rather than forest grazing.

These contributions underscore ReForest’s commitment to fostering sustainable agricultural practices and enhancing carbon sequestration through agroforestry.

We look forward to engaging with stakeholders and contributing to meaningful discussions at the summit.