Vainio, Elisa: Carbon Action – Towards regenerative agriculture in Finland

Vainio, Elisa: Carbon Action – Towards regenerative agriculture in Finland

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  Carbon Action –towards regenerative agriculture in Finland Elisa Vainio, project manager, Baltic Sea Action Group ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  Baltic Sea ActionGroup (2008), is an independent non-profit foundation based in Finland. BSAG works to restore the good ecological balance of the Baltic Sea in the changing climate. We are a matchmaker and a catalyst for change. 3 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  HEALTHY SOILS OFFERMULTIPLE BENEFITS • minimize nutrient runoff to the water bodies • store more carbon, reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change • support higher biodiversity 4 BSAG / Eliisa Malin ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  HEALTHY SOIL STORESMORE CARBON 5 FOTOSYNTHESIS (= ACTIVE CARBON UPTAKE) ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  SOIL HEALTH ISALSO A GOAL IN EU POLICY EU soil strategy for 2030 → healthy soils by 2050 → New Soil Health Law by 2023 6 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  COSTS AND POTENTIALOF CO2 REMOVAL METHODS 2050 7 Soil quality Food security Trace GHGs Forests Soil Enhanced weathering Direct air capture Biochar Bioenergy carbon capture and storage Minx et al. 2018, Environmental Research Letters. ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  REGENERATIVE FARMING METHODS • Watermanagement • Minimize tilling • Organic soil amendments and biochar • Minimize chemical pesticides • Balanced fertilizing • Year-round green cover • Catch crops and cover crops • Diverse crop rotation • Deep-rooted plants in crop rotation • Carbon sequestrating grazing • Agroforestry • FIRST: Fix the foundations! Remove compactions from the fields. 8 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  CARBON ACTION PLATFORM COMPANIES Communication& Media DECISION MAKERS SCIENTISTS FARMERS 9 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  CARBON ACTION FARMS 10 Ca.100 farms = research sites 20 Advanced Carbon Action sites 5 intensive research sites with EC – incl. 2 SMEAR stations ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  CARBON ACTION VERIFICATIONSYSTEM FOR SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION Satellite measurements (Sentinel-2, LAI, NDVI) Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) World 1st forecast on carbon sequestration Data from farms Data from test sites Validation Society www.fieldobservatory.org Ecosystem models (BASGRA, STICS, Land-DNDC) Soil model (Yasso) Nevalainen et al. 2022, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst. Fer et al. 2020, Global Change Biology 11 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  CO2 FLUX &CARBON BALANCE IN QVIDJA 2018–2021 Heimsch et al. 2021, Biogeosciences Carbonaction.org > Science > Peer-reviewed publications Harvest Harvest hot weather Harvest Harvest Harvest Harvest Harvest 12 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  FREE ONLINE COURSE ON REGENERATIVE CARBONFARMING Now in Finnish and Swedish So far 1 700 registered participants Aim: short version also in English 13 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  COMPANIES can affect boththe work of farmers and consumer choices. Examples of actions: • training their contract farmers for regenerative farming – 600 farmers trained • integrate the principles of regenerative farming into the sourcing criteria • regeneratively produced products 14 14 ICOS SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2022
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  Note the CarbonAction related poster presentations! Wednesday evening 18:00 – 19:30, poster session 10 65. Fer, Istem: Operational near-term iterative forecasting of greenhouse gas emissions from Finnish agricultural fields 78. Kajasilta, Henri: Operationalizing the Landscape-DNDC model through the Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer model-data integration cyberinfrastructure at SMEAR-Agri sites 15
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  Project funders
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