World soils preserves a SOC pool of 1500 Pg and a SIC pool of 1000 Pg, which plays a key role in global terrestrial carbon cycling. Soil carbon storage in world agricultural soils have a great potential for mitigating climate change. Thus, soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation in agricultural soils have been adopted as a potential option for alleviating the increasing air CO2. However, the variability of C storage and GHGs emission both in spatial scale and with agricultural management practices challenged a sound estimation of the actual role of mitigation in agriculture, which has been one of the research frontiers in global society. Understanding the interactions between crop, soil and microbes would be crucial for enhancing both the productivity and mitigation potential in croplands for climate-friendly agriculture. All these topics will be discussed well by an international community in this workshop. The workshop is to exchange research information on the soil organic storage and dynamics under various agricultural practices, the variability and counting methodologies, C sequestration mechanisms and practical options and their effects in agricultural soils. The workshop is to provide an international forum on C sequestration and Climate change mitigation in agriculture and to enhancing intentional collaboration with Chinese partners in this challenging issue.

The main topics to be extensively discussed during the workshop are as follows:

1, SOC pools, dynamics and the variability in agricultural soils;

2, Greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission from agricultural soils;

3, C and GHGs C counting methodology;

4, Biological processes and C sequestration in agricultural soils;

5, Mitigation potential and mitigation options in agriculture;

The first circular may be download here! （农业碳固定与减排国际会议第一轮通知下载）!