Description
Under the EU Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF), a carbon farming (CF) activity should provide a net carbon removal or soil emission reduction benefit to be computed against a baseline. To account for the risk of reversal after the CF activity has taken place, the Delegated Act from the CRCF requires operators to carry out a risk assessment. The risk assessment of the CF activity needs to be done before the start of the activity period (Section 3 ‘Storage, monitoring and liability’). This mapviewer provides a beta-version of the spatially continuous layers resampled at 5km from (Breure et al. 2025; DeRosa et al. 2024) relevant to the risk assessment for mineral soils under agriculture. The original layers are accessible on the European Soil Data Centre: https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/soil-carbon-risk-index and https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/SOC-changes-2009-18.References
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