This study aims to explore how removal of greenhouse gases in the agricultural sector can be part of a just transition to climate neutrality. Sweden is implementing a new greenhouse gas removal (GHG) measure, cover crops, starting in 2023, and may introduce a result based greenhouse gas removal (GGR) agri environmental and climate scheme (AECS) in 2028 (Flodin, forthcoming). There are studies on which determinants influence whether farmers adopt AESC schemes (e.g. Hasler et al. 2022; Vanslembrouck et al., 2002) and on how farmers’ perceive climate neutrality (Puupponen et al., 2022), but no studies (that this project has been able to identify so far) explicitly look at which determinants influence farmers’ uptake of GGR measures or result-based GGR AECS. Furthermore, there is research on public acceptance of GGR (e.g. Johnsson et al., 2009; Karayannis et al., 2014; Pianta et al., 2021; Romanak et al., 2021; Shackley et al., 2008; Tcvetkov et al., 2019) and local attitudes to storage (e.g. Akerboom et al., 2021; Braun, 2017), but a lack of knowledge on local acceptance of GGR measures in the agricultural sector. Barriers and opportunities regarding the implementation of these new GGR measures (such as cover crops) and schemes (results-based GGR AECS) will be explored. Farmers’ perspectives and practices and stakeholders perceptions will be studied to contribute to the understanding of how GGR measures and results-based GGR AECS can be sanctioned and adopted. One of the most pressing technical issues with GGR measures in agriculture is that the approaches generally associated with the sector are reversible, there is no guarantee that the sequestered carbon will stay in the soil (Minx et al., 2018). But result based GGR AECS may open up the agricultural sector for GGR approaches with the option of permanent storage (Flodin, forthcoming). Furthermore, the exploration of farmers’, policy actors and other stakeholders perspectives and attitudes towards these new GGR and storage approaches may help to avoid unwanted side effects (Carton et al., 2020) and to contribute to procedural (are everyone heard) and distributive (who gets what) justice in the transition process (Timmermann, 2020). The following overarching research question guides the study as an entirety: How can the removal of greenhouse gases in the agricultural sector be part of a just transition to climate neutrality? To answer this question, the following questions have been formulated: - (1) How will determinants, factors that influence whether farmers adopt measures and schemes, change for greenhouse gas removal measures and result based greenhouse gas removal schemes? - (2) What are the local attitudes towards greenhouse gas removal measures and result based schemes in the agricultural sector? By pursuing these questions it will be possible to say something about farmers and stakeholders attitudes towards GGR implementation. Johanna Liljenfeldt, main supervisor, Uppsala University, Wind unit https://www.uu.se/kontakt-och-organisation/personal?query=N17-97