Trees bring multifaceted benefits to farms and communities which include carbon sequestration and multi-ecosystem services. Carbon farming is considered a potential opportunity for farmers and land managers to derive a new income stream for their farm and can reward actions they take to remove and store carbon in soils, forests, grasslands, croplands and hedgerows. 

Ireland has published draft principles for a nation-wide carbon farming framework, co-developed by Climate KIC and the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Ireland is among the first European countries to propose a national framework for carbon farming, implementing the EU’s climate mitigation roadmap, including the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation.

The Forum does not have information on how unregulated trading outside of a formal carbon trading mechanism is currently operating in Ireland, we will post information on the carbon trading framework here once it has been launched.