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This Working Group aims to engage with stakeholders involved in the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Soil Organic Carbon from a range of perspectives to address the technical challenges in establishing an eventual monitoring system that address a range of policy needs.

2024 (p.51),  2023 (p.38),  2022 (p.27),  2021 (p.33)

• Soil carbon MRV and carbon farming is a key area of research and innovation funded by the Soil Mission. Funded actions are foreseen to be linked and work together and should take into account and build on relevant previous initiatives on soil carbon monitoring and the EU Soil Observatory. The WG provides a forum for key stakeholders involved in soil programmes linked to carbon sequestration to exchange information on relevant research activities and results. 
   
• The main objective of the meeting was to inform members about upcoming and ongoing EU-funded research and innovation projects on SOC MRV. One of the take away of the TWG meeting was the important role of the EUSO TWG in bringing all projects together, to strengthen collaboration and avoid duplication of efforts.  
   
• The European Research Executive Agency is setting up of a platform to support the implementation of the Horizon Europe Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’. The platform will provide the European Commission with support services for the coordination, monitoring and assessment of the various strands of activities carried-out under the mission to ensure that the mission is successful and impactful. These support services will be referred to as ‘Mission Implementation Platform (MIP)’. There will be cluster groups that the MIP will lead and promote, one on C farming. This WG should work in close collaboration with MIP. The added value of EUSO WG is to include non-mission projects and potentially reaching more stakeholders than the MIP. 

Agenda and presentations of the meeting can be found in this pdf.