Earth Observation (EO) for Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of Carbon Farming Earth (CF) - Uncertainty and Benchmarking
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Mat Yarger (Portugal /US) | Demia
07, 25
Dear Credible team, thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the Credible 2025 consultation. Our feedback reflects hands-on implementation across markets and aims to inform how digital infrastructure can accelerate traceable, cost-effective carbon farming aligned with the CRCF. The following feedback is based on our work designing digital infrastructure for credit-level traceability, automated sustainability reporting, and integration with emerging standards. In the attached letter, we provide reflections and recommendations in response to the following five expert reports:
1. Barriers and incentives for sharing input data needed in carbon farming and MRV systems in Europe; 2.Earth Observation (EO) for MRV of Carbon Farming; 3. Unlocking data for MRV: Data sharing for effective carbon farming; Ensuring carbon farming delivers sustainability benefits and 5. An effective policy mix for scaling up carbon farming We share our input based on practical implementation experience and with the aim of supporting the development of effective, transparent, and farmer-accessible carbon farming and MRV systems across Europe. Our experience building MRV infrastructure aligns closely with the data architecture envisioned under the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). In this submission, we provide actionable suggestions to support CRCF-compatible implementation, especially as it relates to credit traceability, automated disclosures, and co-benefit accounting.
Attached filePierre-Philippe CLAUDE (France) | Polyor
07, 25
Well written report, if only to further demonstrate what EO can & cannot do for carbon-farming and SOC/M monitoring & conservation (cf. Table 1). Still, I can’t help sensing – no pun intended, that in conclusion the authors are recommending more of the same. To make of long story short, I’ll insist that EO is best used as an easily standardizable source of low resolution weak predictors across vast areas such as the EU28 fed to non-algebraic high precision AI-like predictive algorithms. These RHS (right hand side) independent data are abundant given the very nature of EO and can now be used to precisely predict – but not explain, the few LHS (left hand side) dependent agronomic variables. In agricultural consultancy, and especially carbon-farming, very few such agronomic variables are known precisely ; grain DM yield and NPK contents along with the NPK fertilizer application rates. With that in mind, Polyor SAS (www.polyor.fr) has devised a cost-effective an ergonomic approach to nutrient management planning (NMP) using plot-specific N-fertilizer response curves conducive to SOC/M conservation. These NMPs are interoperable with in-season & in-field precision agriculture technologies very appreciative of quasi real-time EO data. The best of both worlds in a sense.
Gerry Lawson (France) | EURAF
07, 25
Since this report was published in May we have become aware of the EU "High Value Datasets (HVD) Implementing Regulation" - which explicitly covers LPIS and GSAA datasets for agricultural parcels. The link below contains an improved version of Table 2 in the report, and more background. Member States should have met the HVD Requirements (e.g. providing LPIS/GSAA data via an API) by June 2024 and only 2 (possibly 4) seem to be fully compliant. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hP7LFd7teIZUPe-phKmX5UGwkvRiJjl3h_ztgGiWz7Q/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.lss5ckp8rpe8