In September 2025, the Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR) was officially launched under the funding of Horizon Europe, marking a major step forward in the creation of an open, transparent, and scientifically robust framework for carbon accounting across the EU. The initiative brings together more than thirty partners, including universities, research institutes, SMEs and NGOs, and aims to run through 2029, with an investment of €11.5 million.
The project’s ambition is broad: to offer Europe’s 9.1 million farmers and forest managers simple, affordable tools to measure, verify, and certify carbon sequestration and ecosystem-service benefits from their land-management practices.
At the heart of OGCR’s innovation is the creation of harmonized, updateable baseline data on soil carbon along with biomass and peat carbon. These geospatial carbon baselines, scalable from local to pan-European level, are intended to underpin fair, transparent certification and remuneration under the upcoming framework of Carbon Removals Certification Framework (CRCF).
Original article posted in Italian on Materia Rinnovabile
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