“We are laying the groundwork for a fair and reliable carbon economy in Europe and our vision is that every farmer, forester, and policymaker will be able to access consistent, trustworthy carbon data”.
Dr. Ichsani Wheeler, OpenGeoHub Foundation
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Carbon is everywhere.
It’s the backbone of life on Earth and at the center of our climate crisis.
For decades, we’ve talked about carbon as the enemy: something to reduce, remove, offset. But what if we’ve been asking the wrong questions? The reality is more complex. We will always need carbon. The real challenge is not eliminating it, but measuring it and restoring healthy carbon cycles that work with living systems rather than against them.
In this special Carbon series, we explore carbon not just as a problem to solve, but as a system to understand from soils and landscapes to data, finance, and policy. We look at why measuring carbon matters, and how transparent, scientifically validated, and openly accessible geospatial carbon accounting can become a foundation for trust and action.
The aim is to empower farmers, land managers, policymakers, researchers, and communities across Europe and beyond by building open frameworks that connect environmental responsibility with real economic opportunity.
Because the future of carbon isn’t just about emissions and carbon farming. It’s about how we live, produce, invest and regenerate, and ensure carbon benefits are shared across generations.
FIRST EPISODE COMING IN MARCH ’26
This special podcast series is part of the Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR) project which aims to provide transparent, scientifically validated, and openly accessible geospatial carbon accounting tools in order to to empower stakeholders across Europe and beyond For more information about the project visit www.ogcr.eu.
Some of our previous episodes related to carbon (to give an idea of the present and the past landscape in the sector):
- Julia Kasper – Rewetting peatlands is the biggest climate opportunity to cut CO2
- Chuck de Liedekerke – Paying 1600 farmers to change their practices and just raised €15M
- Laimonas Noreika – From FinTech to Farms: bridging the €60B loan gap for Europe’s small farms
- Chris Tolles – All the venture capital in the world can’t make soils change faster
- Jim Mann – Biochar and enhanced rock weathering to remove 1B ton carbon annually and holistically
- Johannes Scheibe on using carbon credits to transition from understocked and overgrazed to zero input grazing
- Bert Glover on investing over $600M into regenerative farms in the US and Australia and selling soil carbon credits to Microsoft
- Christian Shearer on selling 100,000 soil carbon credits to Microsoft on the blockchain
- Henk Mooiweer – If you can get paid now by Nestlé, Shell and Microsoft to change grazing practices, why wait?
- Ivo Degn and Philippe Birker – Does a low interest, 3,5% on $2,5 million loan, really qualify as a regenerative investment?
- Robin Saluoks and Kristjan Luha on how to start paying 1500 grain farmers across 1M hectares for soil carbon
- Paul Gambill on paying farmers for storing carbon in their soils at Nori
- Sam Schiller on why 100 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent stored is key to kick start regen ag and how to get there
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.