Soil carbon 4 per mille

• Published in: Geoderma Vol. 292; pp. 59 - 86
• Main Authors: Minasny, Budiman, Malone, Brendan P., McBratney, Alex B., Angers, Denis A., Arrouays, Dominique, Chambers, Adam, Chaplot, Vincent, Chen, Zueng-Sang, Cheng, Kun, Das, Bhabani S., Field, Damien J., Gimona, Alessandro, Hedley, Carolyn B., Hong, Suk Young, Mandal, Biswapati, Marchant, Ben P., Martin, Manuel, McConkey, Brian G., Mulder, Vera Leatitia, O'Rourke, Sharon, Richer-de-Forges, Anne C., Odeh, Inakwu, Padarian, José, Paustian, Keith, Pan, Genxing, Poggio, Laura, Savin, Igor, Stolbovoy, Vladimir, Stockmann, Uta, Sulaeman, Yiyi, Tsui, Chun-Chih, Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, van Wesemael, Bas, Winowiecki, Leigh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.04.2017
• Subjects: agricultural land; agricultural soils; anthropogenic activities; Australia; Belgium; best management practices; Bodemgeografie en Landschap; Canada; carbon sequestration; Chile; China; climate; Climate change; England; farmers; food security; France; greenhouse gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; India; Indonesia; Ireland; issues and policy; Kenya; New Zealand; Nigeria; Russia; Scotland; Soil carbon; Soil carbon sequestration; Soil Geography and Landscape; soil organic carbon; soil profiles; soil quality; South Africa; South Korea; Tanzania; topsoil; United States; United States; Tanzania; England; Scotland; Kenya; India; Russia; New Zealand; Canada; South Korea; Belgium; Ireland; China; South Africa; Australia; Chile; France; Nigeria; Indonesia; Climate change; Greenhouse gases; Soil carbon sequestration; Soil carbon

The ‘4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate’ was launched at the COP21 with an aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4 %) per year as a compensation for the global emissions of greenhouse gases by anthropogenic sources. This paper surveyed the soil org...