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Overview of Summit’s sessions, contributions and recommendations is now available

Banner for the 2nd European Carbon Farming Summit in Dublin, March 4-6, 2025, with a photo of a stone building and event details.

Five plenary and more than 40 parallel sessions, and almost 50 posters, were the backbone of last March’s 2nd European Carbon Summit in Dublin, which counted with the participation of more than 500 people and 100 contributing organisations. The event sparked many insightful presentations and rich discussions on the present and future of carbon farming in Europe, including a series of recommendations on how to move forward aimed at policymakers, researchers, private companies, landowners, and more.

Project Credible has now edited two documents summarising the main outcomes of the Summit. The first report is a general Overview of sessions, contributions, and recommendations, which was edited by Climate KIC and SAE Innova, and where you will find:

✅ The Summit's key outcomes, numbers, and insights.

✅ An overview of the five Plenary sessions, including summaries and key learnings. Participants included Christian Holzleitner, Eric Soubeiran, Jocelyn Gainche, Greet Ruysschaert, Edouard Lanckriet, Ahmad Al Bitar, Roberta McDonald, Sheila Darmos, Iain Tolhurst, Lucia Perugini, Hugh McDonald, Andrew Voysey, Kirsten Dunlop, Valeria Forlin, Daniel Zimmer, Saskia Keesstra, and many more.

✅ A description of the 40+ Parallel sessions, including the issues addressed and a series of recommendations aimed at policymakers, researchers, private companies, landowners, and more.

✅ The 40+ Posters presented at the Summit.

Moreover, the recommendations stemming from the parallel sessions were carefully assessed in a second report, Analysis of Session Recommendations. This document, edited by Daniel Zimmer (Climate KIC), categorises and classifies the 165 recommendations recorded across these sessions, highlighting the most repeated keywords, type of recommendations, and target audiences.

The document also extracts the key messages that emerged from these recommendations, which include topics such as addressing small farm challenges and ensuring value for farmers, promoting holistic approaches, clarifying rules and strengthening policy coherence, sharing financial risks, guaranteeing regional differentiation, and defining baselines and supporting early adopters.