Skip to main Communities My dashboard Log in Sign up Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils, HoliSoils Part of EU Open Research Repository Published July 31, 2024 | Version v1 Journal article Open We need targeted policy interventions in the EU to save soil carbon Authors/Creators Mäkipää, Raisa 1 Bruun, Otto Einar 2 Lehtonen, Aleksi 1 Peltoniemi, Mikko 3 Kulovesi, Kati Show affiliations 1.
Natural Resources Institute Finland 2. University of Eastern Finland 3.
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Description Globally, annual emissions from managed organic soils accounts for up to 5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Climate-wise management and restoration of degraded organic soils could reduce GHG emissions quickly and at relatively low costs. The European Union (EU) Member States that have large areas of organic soils with high GHG emissions are Sweden, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Netherlands, and the Baltic countries. To meet the climate targets and objectives of the Paris Agreement the land-use sector is indispensable and mitigation policies targeting organic soils will be needed. The international regulatory framework is broad and quite unspecific. In contrast, the European Union has initiated binding regulation for the land-use sector through the EU Climate Law, the EU LULUCF regulation, and the proposed EU Nature Restoration Law. However, even this regulatory approach is not on track to deliver on its binding ambitions, indicating the need for more effective implementation measures also on organic soils in the EU and its member states. Furthermore, we argue that appropriate policy selection should consider current knowledge regarding the climate impacts of management options of organic soils. Lastly, we need more studies on GHG emissions, and standardized methods for GHG inventories, to resolve uncertainties surrounding the impacts of management to GHG emissions. Successful policy implementation requires more efforts but also improved scientific justification through continuous consideration of climate policy integrity and strengthening of the reliability of GHG inventories. Files fenvs-12-1354695.pdf Files (689.0 kB) Name Size Download all fenvs-12-1354695.pdf md5:75ffcdf62c63a561d58209254dc4860c 689.0 kB Preview Download Additional details Funding European Commission HoliSoils - Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils 101000289 20 Views 12 Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 20 20 Downloads Total downloads 12 12 Data volume Total data volume 11.7 MB 11.7 MB More info on how stats are collected.... Versions External resources Indexed in OpenAIRE Communities Details DOI DOI Badge DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19678388 Markdown [](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19678388) reStructuredText .. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19678388.svg :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19678388 HTML <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19678388"><img src="https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19678388.svg" alt="DOI"></a> Image URL https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19678388.svg Target URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19678388 Resource type Journal article Publisher Zenodo Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 2024. Rights License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International The Creative Commons Attribution license allows re-distribution and re-use of a licensed work on the condition that the creator is appropriately credited. Read more Citation Export Technical metadata Created April 21, 2026 Modified April 21, 2026 Jump up About About Policies Infrastructure Principles Projects Roadmap Contact Blog Blog Support Help FAQ Developers REST API OAI-PMH Contribute GitHub Donate Funded by Powered by CERN Data Centre & InvenioRDM Status Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms of Use This site uses cookies. Find out more on how we use cookies Accept all cookies Accept only essential cookies