Open Geospatial Carbon Registry - An open digital MRV ecosystem integrating data from parcel to continental scale to serve intergenerational registration of LULUCF compliant carbon sequestration and avoided emissions

The Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR) aims to create:

1) updateable baseline geospatial layers for soil, biomass and peat for pan-EU,

2) a hybrid modelling framework to explore management changes in CAP and CRCF initiatives, and

3) a globally applicable open geospatial carbon registry, servicing pan-EU.

The project uses a genuinely transparent stakeholder co-design & consultative development process to build software interfacing between CRCF and CAP activities with mandatory and voluntary markets. Above and below ground carbon storage and emission reductions are measured, monitored and independently verified. The system addresses both small and big landholder participation through

1) an innovative geospatial carbon accountancy framework that fairly rewards landholders for avoiding emissions and sequestering carbon over generations,

2) applicability to all lands independent of management, and

3) easy access to geospatial information on past, present and possible future states for soil carbon, biomass and peat soils under different managements.

Geospatial hazards and risks, including those related to climate change, are scientifically based and user accessible. Economic and environmental impact evaluations are widely available to aid landholders and project developers to assess potential for entering the nascent EU CRCF markets. OGCR relies on an underlying statistical unification of common MRV approaches, both direct measurement, modelled and hybrid approaches, including uncertainty metrics. OGCR builds on a socially responsible and ecologically valid economic framework for valuation through time. OGCR is built in the open view of the stakeholder community by the open source community, under scientific supervision and iteratively developed.