Carbon Farming Schemes reward land managers for practices that increase carbon sequestration or reduce emissions, with Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems ensuring these efforts are accurately measured and trusted. A key component of these systems is the issuance of carbon credits, which are tradable units that represent verified reductions or removals of greenhouse gases.

In this context, the MARVIC project is supporting the development of Carbon Farming in Europe through cost-effective and reliable MRV systems, and is currently gathering opinions on policy coherence and financial mechanisms that could support the uptake of Carbon Farming. Specifically, MARVIC has launched a survey to explore stakeholders’ views on the coherence of Carbon Farming practices with key environmental objectives of EU policy, as well as their priorities in cases of trade-offs between policy objectives. Moreover, the survey explores their opinions on the financial mechanisms needed to encourage the uptake of Carbon Farming schemes.

The survey was designed by MARVIC partners Silvia Coderoni (University of Teramo), Paolo Sckokai and Diana Escobar (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart), and Jana Polakova (Czech University of Life Sciences). It targets a wide range of stakeholders, including policymakers, farmers and land users, farmers’ organisations, financial-sector actors (e.g., investors), agro-industry representatives, advisors, carbon credit buyers, standards developers, NGOs, and citizens.

Follow this link if you would like to participate in the survey, which takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Your insights will help shape more effective and balanced policies for sustainable agriculture and climate action. Thank you for taking part!