EUSO Dashboards
Welcome to the EU Soil Observatory Dashboards.
This page provides access to the EUSO Soil Degradation Dashboard,
EU Soil Strategy Actions Tracker,
and the CRCF Map Viewer
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EUSO Soil Degradation Dashboard
The EUSO Soil Health Dashboard provides an assessment of the state of soil health in the EU. This assessment is expressed through key indicators which will be updated regularly according the availability of new data. By making soil data easily accessible through an interactive platform, the EUSO Soil Health Dashboard will enable users to visualise the progress of actions to reduce pressures on soil over time, reflecting the implementation of the EU Soil Strategy, the upcoming Soil Health Law and the actions of the EU Green Deal at large.
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EUSO Soil Strategy Actions Tracker
EU Soil Strategy Actions Tracker – A new tool to track the actions listed in the EU Soil Strategy for 2030.
The EU Soil strategy for 2030 sets out a framework and concrete measures to protect and restore soils and ensure that soils are used sustainably. It sets a vision and objectives to achieve healthy soil by 2050, with concrete actions by 2030. This new vision for soil is also anchored in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, and the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy. The EU Soil Strategy Actions Tracker is designed to track the progress of the actions listed in the EU Soil Strategy.
The Soil Strategy Actions Tracker is the first step in the EUSO Soil Policy Actions Tracker to monitor EU policy actions relevant to sustainable soil management; other policies (e.g. EU Climate Law) are foreseen to be included in 2025. The EUSO Soil Policy Actions Tracker will be updated twice a year to illustrate progress in policy development. The EU Soil Strategy Actions Tracker builds on the KCBD Tracker from the Joint Research Centre designed to track the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030.
Details on the methodology used are provided in this technical report.
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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. This CRCF Map Viewer provides a beta-version of the spatially continuous layers resampled at 5km relevant to the risk assessment for mineral soils under agriculture.
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The EUSO Africa Dashboard is a policy-support tool explore soil health in Africa. The interactive tool allows the visualization of threats to soil health and their combinations, enabling the creation of customized indices. It enables users to explore synergies with other policy priorities and to understand the potential impact of soil health policies.
The EUSO Africa Dashboard serves as the basis for the African Union Soil Observatory (Horizon project n. 101218840), which will incorporate novel datasets, connect to national soil information systems, and advance the scientific foundation for soil health policies in Africa.