Demonstration and Discussion: Answering your Carbon Questions

Carbon is the current enigma on many minds within rural land management. We all know soil stores carbon but how much? How do we monitor it? How do we quantify it? Can we sell it? Should we sell it? Which operators or models should we be employing? When will the Soil Carbon Code be published? The list goes on…. To provide some answers, SLE, in collaboration with WES, would like to invite you to attend this Demonstration and Discussion event at Raehills Estate in south-west Scotland, where our expert guests, who are at the heart of carbon measurement and the compilation of the Soil Carbon Code, will be able to provide some much sought-after clarity.

Attendees will have the opportunity to watch a field demonstration from Agricarbon, a company who specialise in directly measuring soil carbon stocks, using statistically significant and cost-reduced methods. Following this, guests will then be invited to join a discussion at Raehills House focusing on soil carbon with panel expertise from the Soil Carbon Code Consortium, who have been tasked with producing the highly anticipated Soil Carbon Code which will drive the soil carbon market in the UK. The expert panelists will include:

Dr Helaina Black – A Consortium member and Honorary Associate at the James Hutton Institute, Helaina Black is leading on drafting the UK Code and has just completed a review of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) methods used by soil carbon projects around the world.

Rachael Ramsay –Scientific and Research Lead at Agrecalc, a Consortium member and the only Government-utilised carbon modelling tool to-date. Agrecalc is a carbon footprint tool, developed by SAC Consulting together with SRUC researchers which employs the latest validated scientific methodologies and encourages practical mitigation measures.

Annie Leeson – Co-founder of Agricarbon, a Consortium member which has taken the ‘gold standard’ of laboratory analysis for quantifying soil organic carbon (SOC) and through utilising robotics, has dramatically improved consistency and costs to offer a very low-cost service that yields very high integrity quantification of soil carbon stock.

Paul Richardson, Policy Advisor for Agriculture and Climate Change at SLE.

Additional Info

Meeting Point: Raehills House, Raehills Estate, St Ann’s Lockerbie DG11 1HL - click here view Google Maps in a new window

Tea and Coffee on Arrival

Lunch will be provided

Since part of this event will take place outdoors, please bring suitable clothing and footwear.