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GAIAGO FINANCEMENT

GAÏAGO FINANCEMENT SAS La société a pour objet, en France et à l’étranger, de : - Favoriser la revitalisation des sols ; - Développer des projets de compensation carbone dans le marché volontaire ; - Trouver des sources de financement pour les agriculteurs afin d’accélérer la transition agro- écologique (financement de leurs initiatives pionnières et de recherches, innovations, réduction d'intrants) et démontrer leurs actions pour accélérer la transition agro-écologique; - Favoriser l’adaptation au changement climatique ; - Développer des méthodes de séquestration du carbone dans les sols grâce à l’utilisation de biostimulants ; - Favoriser le déploiement de dispositifs permettant de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre ; La Société a pour vision « l’homme est vivant quand la terre est vivante ». La transition agroécologique revêt des dimensions larges. Agronomique, économique, social, environnemental, l’impact est multiple et combiné pour faire évolue (...)

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Response to Carbon Removal Certification

21 Apr 2022

We welcome this initiative which is fundamental for the future of European agriculture. Our company provides innovative solutions - based on the selective activation of microbiology - primarily on soil revitalization. These products help awaken and boost beneficial soil micro-organisms in order to bring agronomic, nutritional and ecological benefits to farmers, consumers and the planet, including carbon sequestration. Indeed, they activate and stimulate soil microbial bacteria and fungi, which increase the amount of stable organic matter in the soil. Thus, by increasing humifing microorganisms, the rate of stable organic matter will increase and therefore the rate of sequestered carbon will increase too. In this way, it will be possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the rates of carbon sequestered in agriculture in order to fight climate change without impacting food security (as the use of biostimulants does not lead to yield decline. Our company has developed an expertise on soil carbon sequestration, monitoring and certification and has launched a pilot carbon credit project in 2022, where monitoring is based on direct soil carbon measurement. International standards (like Gold Standard) are pursued. Existing standards such as Verra VCS, Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, the Australian ERF, the French Label Bas Carbone, Puro.Earth, etc. have already developed MRV methodologies about carbon removals, which could be the basis for a future european certification framework. Their expertise and understanding of the challenges should be taken into account, especially the concrete challenges faced during on-field implementation and monitoring of projects. There are already several certified (or about to be certified) carbon projects about removals in Europe. The expertise of project holders / participants / partners should be thoroughly analyzed and taken into account, for example through interviews or workshops. As a carbon project developer, we believe that a EU framework should allow for direct soil carbon measurement. Some standards (Gold Standard, Verra, the ERF, …) have reliable methodologies about this. We believe that direct measurement of soil carbon is a great opportunity to ensure environmental integrity, develop european innovation on such technologies, gather data, better calibrate future models, etc. Moreover, it is the only option for innovative solutions for soil carbon sequestration : indeed, when solutions are new, they are not yet described in models and thus require the proof of results rather than the proof of means. If the framework lists all eligible types of projects, the list should be broad enough to allow for innovations to be integrated, in order to stimulate innovation and not prevent them. A challenge we are facing as a carbon project developer is the flexibility about the implementation of a methodology : agricultural situations are so diverse that there always are exceptions (farmers who don’t have the necessary data for the baseline, soils that are too rocky to analyze through standard procedures, etc.). Deviations, when justified, should be allowed. We believe a European framework should allow for very different situations : small projects (such as in the French Label Bas Carbone) and bigger projects where farms can be aggregated over the time. Also, this framework should permit the stacking of practices. If the certification considers permitting the stacking of activities, it can encourage the farmers to adopt sustainable farming practices and to continuously improve and could lead to greater emission removal and reduction potential of the programme. Last, if the EU framework has the ambition of becoming the main certification scheme in Europe, it should allow for existing projects to switch of certification towards the European framework.
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