This webinar marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the RTF, coinciding with the release of SAI Platform’s newly published methods paper and the outcomes of a collaborative research project with the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB). 

 

In April 2025, a team from FiBL initiated a partnership with the Virunga Foundation to support sustainable agriculture in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Creative ideas are being sought that will help to raise public awareness of the often overlooked but vital importance of soil. Selected proposals will receive financial support for implementation. Further information about the webinar and the jury members being recruited can be found at the link below.

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a gas used to study the carbon cycle because plants absorb it in a similar way as they absorb carbon dioxide. However, to use COS effectively, all sources and sinks must be understood and nowadays there still is an unexplained missing sink in high northern latitudes. Budget calculations of COS in boreal regions typically look at the contribution of forests, but not of wetlands. We measured COS fluxes over a boreal wetland, compared them to COS fluxes measured over a nearby forest and upscaled the fluxes to estimate their contribution to the boreal region and to verify if boreal wetlands can account for the missing sink. With our measurements we show the importance of including boreal wetland COS fluxes in budget calculation

The report provides a systematic analysis of the similarities and differences among pricing schemes while exploring innovative legal and institutional frameworks and approaches that could help to scale them to the macro level. By combining insights from micro-/meso-level analysis of private-sector innovations together with assessment of relevant regulatory developments at the macro level, the report addresses the prerequisites, challenges, and limitations of pricing strategies aimed at promoting a living income.