Highlights of the FairCarboN Annual Days in Le Croisic

The event opened with a presentation by Martial Bernoux (FAO), dedicated to the important role of carbon in continental ecosystems within international conventions and environmental challenges.

An evening session was devoted to Marion Guillou (High Council for the Climate, former President of INRA), in conversation with Annette Gerlach (ARTE journalist) and the FairCarboN community. Together, they discussed the issue of climate‑related misinformation.

These days were also an opportunity to:

• highlight the scientific progress of the programme’s projects,
• discuss stakeholder expectations and research perspectives on measuring carbon fluxes,
• TEASER, in 3 minutes, the work of FairCarboN’s young researchers,
• run a new session of the “Ma Terre en 180 minutes” workshops, encouraging reflection on the carbon footprint of our research,
• organise a field visit to the Trou bleu viewpoint in Lavau‑sur‑Loire,
• and, new this year, admire the live sketches created by illustrator Donnatelle Liens — which we will share very soon!
• These moments of exchange and conviviality once again illustrated the richness of the FairCarboN community and its collective commitment to improving the understanding and management of carbon in ecosystems.

The presentation videos are available below:

Program: 

Day 1 - Tuesday november 4th 

• 9:00 / Opening of the day – Pierre Barre 9:00–10:00 / Keynote – Martial Bernoux – “Carbon at the heart of environmental challenges and international conventions”
• 10:00–10:45 / Oral presentations – Axis 1 “Sources, transfer, transformation and storage of carbon along the land–coastal zone–atmosphere continuum” & Axis 3 “Developing the production and use of plant biomass” (FairCarboN)
• GREENSCALE – Fabien Chardon
• RhizoSeqC – Isabelle Basile‑Doelsch

• CO2_CMPhi - Gilles Peltier 

• Pause (20mins)
• 11h05 / QUIZZ on data management 

• 11h10 - 12h30 / Projects speech Axis 1 & 3 FairCarboN

• SLAM-B - Hugo Senges 

• TROPECOS - Aurélia Mouret et Edouard Metzger

• CABESTAN - Pierre Anschutz et Paul Kanfer 

• CarboNium - Laure Gandois et Julien Némery 

• DEEP-C - Ronny Lauerwald 

• 12h30 / Déjeuner
• 13h55 / QUIZZ on data management

• 14h00-15h00 / Keynote International scientific advisors "Tropical soils : the key challenges of soil carbon sequestration" - Tantely Razafimbelo

• 15h00 - 15h20 / Feedback from the Methane Group - Roberto Grilli

• 15h20 - 16h05 / Projects / Associated program of FairCarboN community

• REWRITE - Vona Meleder 

• ORCASA - Suzanne Reynders

• PEPR SolsVivants - Philippe Hinsinger

• 16h05 - 16h30 / My MISSION in 180 secondes 

• Clara Gilloteau 

• Noémie Poteaux 

• Benjamin Amann

• Jérémy Pantet

• Hajar Saadelimanni 

• Florian Goutieras 

• Pause (35mins)
• 17h00 - 18h30 / Posters session Axe 1 & 3 FairCarboN
• 19h00 / Diner 
• 20h30 / CARTE BLANCHE Evening – “Climate Misinformation” - Marion Guillou

Day 2 - Wenesday November 5th 

Quantifying carbon stocks and fluxes at the territorial scale: assessment, feedback, and scientific perspectives

• 8h30 - 10h10 / Reporting carbone in different contexts

• CITEPA - Mélanie Juillard 

• ADEME - Sylvain Rullier

• La Rochelle 0 carbone - Marine Afonso

• PNBA Mauritanie - Hélène Launay

• Pause (20mins)
• 10h30 / QUIZZ on data management

• 10h35 - 11h15 / Presentation of scientific work to improve, in the short or medium term, the way carbon reporting is carried out

• SNO Tourbières - Lise Pinault

• IGN / LSCE Forêt - Nikola Besic 

• 11h15 - 12h30 / ROUND TABLE – Carbon Reporting: A Marriage of Reason or Passion?

• 12h30 / lunch
• 13h45 - 14h55 / Atelier early-career scientists FairCarboN 
• 14h55 / QUIZZ on data management

• 15h00 - 17h15 / Oral presentations – Axes 2 “Coupling of biogeochemical cycles in a context of global change” & 4 “Economic and social issues: drivers and impacts of change” (FairCarboN)

• ALAMOD - Kenji Fujisaki 

• Drought-ForC - Jean-Marc Limousin

• RIFT - Olivier Roupsard & Gilles Boulet & Jérôme Demarty

• CrosyeN - Yann Nouvellon & Rémi Cardinael

• CANETE - Gwenaelle Lashermes

• PEACE - Aliénor Allain

• SLAM-B - Agathe Souiry & Arthur Lenoir 

• PREFALIM - Craig Pesme & Rafael Schuetz

• CLIM-FAS - Kamel Elouhichi

• 17h15 - 17h45 / My Mission in 180 secondes 

• Pierre Verjans

• Philippine Dubertrand

• Lucie Germain

• Louis Decline

• Paul Legain

• Cyprien Drommi

• Pause (15mins)
• 18h00 - 19h30 / Posters session Axes 2 & 4 FairCarboN
• 19h30 / Diner
• 21h00 / Workshop "Ma Terre en 180 mins"

Day 3 - Thursday November 6th 

• 8h45 - 10h30 /Presentation of FairCarboN cross‑cutting activities

• Pierre Barré 

• Perrine Franquet

• Nicolas Gratiot

• Jérôme Dutroncy

• Patricia Garnier & Pierre Barré

• Pause (30mins)
• 11h00 - 11h30 / Conclusions & feedback of International Scientific Advisor 

• 11h30 - 15h30 / Visit to the Trou Bleu (Lavau‑sur‑Loire) and to Tadashi Kawamata’s Observatory, accompanied by site managers (the Coastal Conservatory and the Loire‑Atlantique Department), a PhD student working on landscape and land‑use trajectories of the site, and Vona Meleder, Professor of Marine Biology involved in the CABESTAN and CarboNium projects.