Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/Z503563/1
SOCCATOA: Soil Organic Carbon Change: A Tool for the Accreditation of land-based climate change mitigation activities
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr P Levy, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor DA Robinson, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Soils and Land Use (Bangor)
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor N Hanley, University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary, Life Sci
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr D L Miller, BioSS (Biomaths and Stats Scotland), Statistics
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr P Henrys, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Soils and Land Use (Lancaster)
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- None
- Science Topics:
- None
- Abstract:
- Soil carbon markets are emerging to incentivise farmers for management changes that sequester atmospheric carbon. To make such schemes verifiable and free from "greenwashing", reputable codes need to be established to ensure monitoring is done transparently and with appropriate statistical considerations (Popkin 2023). The IEM call is specifically seeking research which "provides information on the sequestration ... of carbon in soils in a timely and suitably scaled manner, for both policy audiences and carbon markets" and "improves on current ... methodologies for assessing soil for use in both policy making and carbon markets". We propose to create a software tool (a capital asset) for the accreditation of carbon credits claimed on the basis of changes in soil organic carbon (SOC). This will capture the joint expertise of UKCEH, BioSS and the University of Glasgow in soil analysis, statistical sampling design, geostatistics, uncertainty quantification, and environmental economics. This tool will be designed for any potential regulators or providers of carbon credits, freely accessible via a web app, and will standardise the methods used to assess the magnitude, uncertainty, and potential economic values of SOC change, and provide recommendations for the future sampling required.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/Z503563/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Event/Action
- Scheme:
- Research Grants
- Grant Status:
- Active
- Programme:
- IEM
This grant award has a total value of £473,110
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Exception - Equipment | DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £391,146 | £1,008 | £21,896 | £39,640 | £5,402 | £8,824 | £5,194 |
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