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  • Glossary item | 18 Mar 2025

Carbon farming

Bioeconomy

‘carbon farming’ means any practice or process, carried out over an activity period of at least five years, related to terrestrial or coastal management and resulting in capture and temporary storage of atmospheric and biogenic carbon into biogenic carbon pools or the reduction of soil emissions;

EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 30.11.2022 COM(2022) 672 final 2022/0394 (COD) Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals

Source category: EU Legislation