Development of climate finance to reduce carbon footprint in mixed crop-livestock farming in a sustainable way
- Project start: June 2021
- End of project: December 2032
- Funding: Life Programme (EU)
- Budget: 48.685 € (55% funded)
- Partners: Asoprovac, Teagasc, Lorra, Unicarve, diferentes Chambres d´Agriculture, ASPROCARNE PIEMONTE – ORGANIZZAZIONE PRODUTTORI CARNE PIEMONTE, Britany Chambers of Agriculture; Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria, COOP de France
By mixing climate and economic objectives, the project goal is to develop a low carbon and sustainable strategy in a cost efficient way in cattle production in major and contrasting countries producing milk and beef in Europe: France, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Spain.
- Elaboration of harmonized tools and standards for implementing carbon farming initiatives
- Development of carbon farming projects in France, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy
- Calculating implementation cost of carbon farming projects
- Application of climate finance in carbon farming projects
- Setting up a EU low carbon farming network
- Building up a European framework for a carbon and sustainable carbon farming strategy
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