Submissions will be accepted by January 22, 2024 A call for papers for Catena, an interdisciplinary soil science journal from the publishing company Elsevier, has been open since early August. Researchers from Embrapa Digital Agriculture are among the guest editors of the special issue on Carbon Inventories: new opportunities and challenges for agriculture and forestry. The local, regional and global relevance of the theme that combines climate change, food security and land scarcity justifies the approach of the theme in a specific edition, says Luis Gustavo Barioni, a researcher at Embrapa Digital Agriculture's Agroenvironmental Modelling Laboratory and editor of the issue. "Scientists and investigators around the world point out the potential of the C sequestration by the soil and vegetation as an easy and cost-effective manner to reduce the global warming,” the researcher states. However, solutions for the theme are poorly demonstrated and scarcely offered in the literature, he assesses. "The growing interest in concepts related to the topic requires methodological and analytical procedures to quantify C stocks, aiming at, among other goals, the carbon credit market," argues the fellow guest editor of the special issue Júnior Melo Damian, a postdoctoral scholar at Embrapa Digital Agriculture. The expert editors of the special issue include other Brazilians, professors from the University of São Paulo's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (Esalq/USP) Carlos Eduardo Cerri and Maurício Roberto Cherubin, as well as important foreign scientists, such as professor Richard T. Conant (CSU) and officers Martial Bernoux (FAO) and Marcelo Valadares Galdos (Rothamsted Research). Accepted manuscripts will be simultaneously published in both in the current regular issue and pulled into the online special issue, and also appear in different regular issues of the journal. Papers should be submitted to junior.damian@colaborador.embrapa.br. Access the journal's guide for authors here. Themes Quantification of soil and plant C stocks across the landscape and in agricultural and forestry systems; tradeoffs in soil C sequestration and stabilization, and life cycle analysis and mechanisms to avoid rebound effects are among the topics to be featured in the special issue. Check the full list: • Quantification of soil and plant C stocks throughout the landscape and in agriculture and forest systems • GHG inventories and global warming potential • Tradeoffs in soil C sequestration • Soil C stabilization • Modeling to predict the C stocks in long-term scenarios • Uncertainties associated to the C stocks evaluations • Challenges for the estimation of soil C stock changes in national GHG inventories • Main advances for the establishment of voluntary and regulated Carbon Market • On the new carbon market and what it means for soil C (gaps and opportunities) • Lifecycle analysis and mechanisms to avoid rebound effect Catena (impact factor 6.2) publishes papers describing original field and laboratory investigations and reviews on landscape evolution and geoecology with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects of soil science, hydrology and geomorphology. It aims to disseminate new knowledge and foster better understanding of the physical environment, of evolutionary sequences that have resulted in past and current landscapes, and of the natural processes that are likely to determine the fate of our terrestrial environment.