Savills’ natural capital team is contributing to one of five research projects which form part of a Government net zero project.
The Transforming Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People (LUNZ) programme, established last month by UK Research and Innovation with investment of £14.5 million, aims to shake up agricultural practices, land use change and soil health.
The Savills natural capital consultancy team, headed by Jon Dearsley from the firm’s Cirencester office, is working alongside its food and farming, rural research and Savills Earth teams to contribute to the ‘to zero fifty’ greenhouse gas accounting living lab project led by Prof Julie Ingram at the University of Gloucestershire.
The project partners include Cranfield University, University of Aberdeen, SRUC, Harper Adams University, Agrecalc, Farm Carbon Toolkit, Cool Farm Alliance and Savills.
The ‘to zero fifty’ living lab aims to develop and evaluate a scalable, auditable farm and food level greenhouse gas accounting framework for UK land use to sustainably reduce emissions.
The project will engage stakeholders across policy and practice to ‘foster net zero compliance and support sustainable agricultural transformation’.
Mr Dearsley said: ‘The agricultural sector is increasingly doing its part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but getting accurate farm level emissions is still tricky and discrepancies between different approaches have led to some uncertainty from the farming sector in engaging with the process.
“I’m excited to be working with this innovative cross-sector programme and the UK’s main carbon toolkits to resolve these challenges and help the agricultural sector continue to move towards net-zero.”
Over the next three years, the five research projects will work with the LUNZ Hub which finds evidence for climate measures.
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