Padua will host the third European Carbon Farming Summit, emerging as this year’s main setting for advancing concrete solutions to implement carbon farming at scale at the European level. The Summit will be articulated around five key themes, covering practical examples from the field; holistic approaches focused on co-benefits; standards, policies and ownership rights; how to unlock funding and business models; and the development of robust and flexible MRV tools.
Around 25 project partners will be present at the Summit, with direct MARVIC involvement in seven sessions in collaboration with other projects such as Credible, MRV4SOC and CAFAMORE, along with the Joint Research Centre (JRC), private investors, and many other actors and organisations. Check them below, ordered chronologically:
C1. Integrating the CRCF into International MRV Systems and the Global Climate Action Agenda (Tuesday 11:30-13:00, Galileo room), with MARVIC partner Eric Ceschia
This session will examine how the CRCF can be aligned with international MRV systems and global climate reporting, exploring how CRCF data and methodologies could support national climate targets, NDCs, and broader public objectives such as soil health and farm income. Among others, the session will feature how the SOC monitoring methodologies for the CRCF could be aligned with other contexts of MRV (CAP, NDCs) and why it would be a benefit for those different contexts of MRV to do so.
E1. Data and Approaches for Consistent Quantification of Emissions and Removals in Baseline and Carbon Farming Activities (Tuesday 11:30-13:00, Petrarca room), with MARVIC partners to be confirmed.
This session will focus on methodological and data challenges in quantifying emissions and removals under the CRCF Regulation with particular attention to baseline definition and consistency, and their implications for calculating net carbon benefits. The session will bring together scientists, public authorities and private sector actors to identify best practices for robust and scalable MRV, exploring case studies in agricultural and forest land.
E5. Cost-effectiveness: harnessing state-of-the-art technology to scale viable Carbon Farming MRV (Wednesday 11:30-13:00, Mantegna 1 room), with MARVIC partners Ahmad Al Bitar, Andrea Ferrarini and Edouard Lanckriet
This session will explore how advanced technologies can address the cost–accuracy bottleneck in carbon farming under the CRCF, supporting robust, scalable, and cost-effective MRV systems. Among others, the session will feature the use of earth observation and crop-soil modelling to quantify soil organic carbon changes at the specific plot level in France and smart sampling strategies using optimisation algorithms validated over 2,000 hectares in Italy.
E6. Data Sharing in Action: From Uncertainty to Trust in Carbon Farming MRV (Wednesday 11:30-13:00, Antenore room), with MARVIC partners Hui Xu, Sofia Biffi and Ahmad Al Bitar
This workshop will bring together actors across the carbon farming value chain to improve data collection, sharing, and uncertainty management for robust and cost effective MRV consistent with the CRCF. The session will begin with short success stories of data sharing and insights into uncertainty assessment, followed by interactive discussions.
E7. Soil Carbon Modelling for Scalable and Reliable MRV: Insights from MRV4SOC and MARVIC Projects (Wednesday 11:30-13:00, Galileo room), with MARVIC partners Greet Ruysschaert, Liisa Kulmala and Marta Bertola.
In this session, the speakers will present results from some case studies of the MARVIC and MRV4SOC projects, focusing on exploring challenges and assessing solutions in modelling performance and uncertainties. The session will also provide scientific insights into how modelling approaches can support transparent, cost-effective, and robust MRV systems for European carbon farming.
D8. Scaling Carbon Farming with Stakeholders: Trust, Certification Frameworks, and Local Initiatives (Thursday 9:00-10:30, Mantegna 1 room), with MARVIC partners Silvia Coderoni and Niklas Witt.
This session aims to bridge gaps between scientific design, policy frameworks, and market implementation, sharing stakeholder perspectives on MRV complexity, certification credibility, governance challenges, and limited farmer trust. The speakers will present different case studies such as holistic certification frameworks integrating soil health, biodiversity and water quality, local carbon credit schemes, sector-specific certification approaches, and public–private action platforms.
E11. Data Standardisation and Harmonisation towards Credible MRV systems (Thursday 9:00-10:30, Antenore room), with MARVIC partners Fenny van Egmond, Hui Xu and Sofia Biffi.
This session will present results from projects MARVIC, MRV4SOC, Credible, CAFAMORE and SoilWise regarding data standardisation and harmonisation for Tier 3 model-based MRV systems, which require large, diverse datasets for calibration, running, and validation. In this session, MARVIC partners will showcase project results related to demo and benchmark sites, farm data assessment for MRV, availability, accessibility and interoperability of sources, and the need and operationalisation of standardised vocabularies for MRV.
Check out the full Summit’s programme here.
