Anaïs L’Hôte

Project Manager at Idele, French Livestock Institute

Anaïs holds a Master’s degree from AgroParisTech. After a final-year internship in the field of agricultural development in Armenia, she worked at the French grassland association and then she joined the environment department of the French Livestock Institute in 2021. Anaïs has managed the European LIFE Carbon Farming project for two years.

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Carbon farming and certification schemes – Lessons learned in France

Following the publication of the national low-carbon strategy in 2015 by the French government, the Ministry for Ecological Transition (2020) created the “Label Bas Carbone” in 2018. This certification framework is managed by the Ministry and its decentralised administration. The goal of the framework is to certify low-carbon projects in France, across sectors, and to attract funding toward these projects. Through this framework, the French Government wishes to encourage all sectors to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and/or to increase carbon sequestration, as in the case of forestry and agriculture. Then, the ambition is to scale-up by building a low carbon standard on a European scale through a pilot project. Consequently, the LIFE Carbon Farming project was launched in 2021, for seven years, and it involves six countries.

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