Carbon Sequestration in Austrian Soils (CASAS, ACRP11)
Completed research studies
Study by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research – Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape – Environment Agency Austria – Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety – University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna – Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft Raumberg-Gumpenstein
Commissioned by: Klima- und Energiefonds
Closed: 2023
CASAS evaluates the potentials and limits of the 4 per mille initiative, published at COP 21. The initiative aims at adopting
land and soil management strategies that increase the SOC pool by 0.4 percent annually thereby mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
CASAS checks the credibility by re-evaluation of well documented experiments on all types of managed soils, of monitoring
sites and by a literature review. We will develop a 4 per mille scenario in economic terms. Outcomes are a qualification of
soil management strategies under consideration of the environment-economy nexus and the sustainable development goals.
Research group:Climate, Environmental and Resource Economics
