LIFE VitiCaSe
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Impacts
Project Information
LIFE VitiCaSe is the first EU-backed project to prove that vineyards can grow more than grapes, they can grow carbon, too. Through a partnership between premium Italian wineries (Castello d’Albola, Ruffino, and San Felice) and scientific leaders like CREA, the project has introduced carbon farming practices across 336 hectares. SOC-rich practices, like no-tillage and cover cropping, restore the soil, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and generate high-integrity carbon credits. The initiative is already demonstrating how climate goals can go hand-in-hand with terroir, tradition, and technology. And the goal is scale: over 16,000 winegrowers are now within reach through the Image Line network, turning Italy’s vineyards into a living lab for sustainable land use.
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Sustainable Developement Goals
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Additionality
Level 1 additionality
Baseline additionality. Compared to the baseline scenario the project needs to mitigate climate change. That is the project must implement actions that are additional to what would occur compared to the baseline.
Level 2a additionality
Statutory additionality. The project must implement actions that are beyond requirements stipulated in local legislation or regulations. Projects are statutory additional if their implementation and/or operation is not required by any law, statute, or other regulatory framework, agreements, settlements, or other legally binding mandates requiring implementation and operation or requiring implementation of similar measures that would result in the same mitigations in the host country.
Level 3 additionality
Technology, institutional, common practice additionality. The project must implement actions that are subject to barriers of implementation or accelerate deployment of technology or activities and carbon market incentives are essential in overcoming these barriers.
Participants
Organizations involved in the project
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ICR Environmental and Socio-economic safeguards 1 documents | |||||
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Project description 2 documents | |||||
Representation deed 1 documents |