Today is Wednesday, 28 August 2024.
After a series of articles about initiatives in the agro sector that were praised by our readers, basically:
(1) Sustainable Farm, soy credits and milk carbon footprint for Frísia cooperative members; and
(2) New methodology for extra remuneration (carbon credits) for sustainable agricultural practices on perennial crop farms - coffee, cocoa, rubber trees, fruits - from ECCON, Reservas Votorantim and Citrosuco.
Today we will take a step back, recovering article content - but keeping part of the title “Brazilian agribusiness and climate change” - as we originally published in 2022 (a time when we were just over 5 thousand on LinkedIn while today we are close to 20 thousand, in addition to now reaching readers in more than 100 cities around the world directly through the portal www.carboncreditmarkets.com/en and with our newsletters “Week: Top Posts”).
We had discussed the 2022 Brazilian Agribusiness Congress, which brought some good topics in preparation for the positioning of Brazilian agribusiness.
Among them was a comment by Luiz Carlos Carvalho, regarding carbon programs, when he said that “The sector is part of the solution, as it absorbs part of the emissions. Today, the production of cultivars absorbs 45% of emissions.”
Luiz Carlos is president of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association - ABAG, and currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Board of Directors of the “Luiz de Queiroz” School of Agriculture at the University of São Paulo – Esalq/USP.
It was also highlighted that Brazilian agriculture, due to its exceptional status as a major exporter and producer of food, fiber and energy, needs to be proactively engaged in discussions on sustainability metrics. And ensure understanding of what is important for tropical agriculture and not just "accepting what is good for the temperate world". Technology and science need to help agriculture in climate adaptation, taking into account the peculiarities of each region.
At the end of the event, comments were also made about the importance of ethanol, renewable energy.
In other words, as the 5th largest country in the world by area and 6th by population, highlighting even more contributions from a young Brazil both in terms of references and current sustainability mindset.
Click on the image below to see a brief video, when Ingo Ploger, ABAG advisor also commented on Brazil's work in the carbon market, and here for an Agroclima article about it. It's worth reviewing.
By the way, the image below, which indicates more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere, was taken from a reference from April 2021 entitled "Carbon credit market: a global vision” (Università del Caffè Brazil / FIA / PENSA – Knowledge Center in Agribusiness), the file of which (in English) is below for download.
With world-renowned authors - Carlos Eduardo Cerri, Christiane Leles Rezende de Vita, Decio Zylbersztajn, Konstantinos Karantininis, Marco Antônio Fujihara and Samuel Ribeiro Giordano - it is one of the most interesting and complete works we have seen so far:
carbon cycle in soil/plants/photosynthesis
agriculture, coffee farming in particular, and the carbon credits market
more carbon in the first 30cm of the soil layer than in the atmosphere
therefore, greater focus on maintaining carbon in the soil as part of the photosynthesis cycle than on the atmospheric issue
agricultural systems of the 20th and 21st centuries
efficiency of carbon credit markets
overview (then) of policies and institutional structures on greenhouse gas emissions in the EU, China, Africa
methods for measuring carbon stocks in the soil: agriculture in general and coffee production
Still on ABAG, it is worth reading the press release of August 26, 2024 about the recent forest fires in the interior of São Paulo.
Tomorrow, in principle, we will update articles about forest fires, about forest offsets in the path of forest fires.
