Scientific objectives

The FairCarboN Priority Research Programme (PEPR) has three main scientific objectives:

• To remove key knowledge gaps regarding the processes governing the carbon cycle, its couplings with other biogeochemical cycles (nitrogen, phosphorus, water), and their responses to global change, as well as to assess the ecological, agronomic and socio‑economic levers that can be activated to support the transition toward climate neutrality.

• To provide the scientific community and stakeholders with a new generation of numerical models, validated using open datasets, capable of simulating changes in carbon stocks and fluxes in soils and vegetation across multiple spatial scales.

• To develop, test and assess—through dialogue with a range of stakeholders (civil society, NGOs, public policy actors, etc.)—scenarios of land‑use change and resource‑management practices that meet climate‑neutrality objectives, and to support their implementation at local and national scales.