LIFE Climate Change Action and State Regional Development Agency of the Republic of Latvia
grant agreement No. LIFE18 CCM/LV/001158
Project partners are LSFRI "Silava" (coordinating beneficiary, contact person Ieva Līcīte), Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Luke (Finland), Tartu University (Estonia), NGO Baltic Coasts (Latvia), Latvia University of Life Science and Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture of Republic of Latvia and Michael Succow Foundation (Germany).
The primary aim of the LIFE OrgBalt project is implementation of climate-change mitigation measures in management of nutrient-rich organic soils in cool temperate moist climate region to contribute to the EU and national climate targets in post-2020 commitment period by reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from organic soils in cropland, grassland and forest land.
The main outputs of the project are climate change mitigation methods for nutrient-rich organic soils in farmlands and forest lands supplemented with demonstration sites; reduced GHG emissions; improved GHG emission factors for nutrient-rich organic soils and GHG inventory procedures for the Baltic region, GHG emission data base for the Baltic region, guidelines for climate-smart management of organic soils, planning tools, policy tools, stakeholder targeted dissemination, scientific and popular publications.