OpenLAND
Aiming to boost the UK's efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
Updated on November 4 2025
Funded from UKRI under phase two of the Transforming Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People programme (LUNZ), which aims to boost the UK’s efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Three-year, £4 million led UEA project – will see researchers carry out an evaluation of climate-resilient interventions for land management and soil health that could benefit net zero targets, biodiversity and agriculture.
The work will be led by Professor Rachel Warren of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at UEA, and Professor Brian Reid from the School of Environmental Sciences. It will create a validated, UK-wide, spatially explicit integrated modelling framework to evaluate potential net zero pathways.
The project will extend the capability of the OpenCLIM modelling framework, which was developed with previous UKRI funding. This will be achieved by ground-truthing soil carbon and soil health using empirical data and by developing and trialling robotic monitoring for measuring and verifying soil carbon and health.
