“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". African proverb.
Launched in September 2022, ORCaSa is a Horizon Europe initiative that aims to bring together international stakeholders working on techniques for capturing and storing carbon in the soil.
The project seeks to address the issue of increasing carbon emissions from human activities, which have led to a disruption in the balance of organic carbon absorbed and stored in the soil to support plant growth.
Over the next three years, ORCaSa will expand the scope to include not only agricultural soil carbon but also soil carbon stored in forests, pastures, wetlands, and urban areas. Coordinated by the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), the project will be powered by Impact4Soil, a state-of-the-art platform that will collect knowledge on soil carbon and make it available to the public.
At the forefront of the Soil Carbon International Research Consortium (IRC) that will emerge from the ORCaSa project, stands the firm belief that a Soil Deal for Europe is needed if we want to meet our climate goals – healthy soils, healthy planet.
