Researcher Guilherme Bastos, coordinator of the Agribusiness Study Center (FGV Agro), presented at the event Brazilian Science for Agriculture, Climate & World Economy – Agrosustainable Alliance the proposal for the Agro Brazil Sustainable Alliance, an initiative that brings together Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), and the Center for Carbon Studies in Tropical Agriculture (CCarbon/USP), with support from the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (ABAG), and Climate and Society Institute (iCS).
Created in October 2024, the Alliance emerges as a technical-scientific platform of public interest, aimed at integrating science, public policies, and the productive sector, strengthening tropical agriculture against the challenges of climate change. During his presentation, Guilherme Bastos emphasized that the central goal is to harmonize methods and metrics to quantify greenhouse gas emissions and removals in agriculture, ensuring scientific accuracy and international credibility.
The proposal highlights the need to monitor emissions and removals of greenhouse gases in production systems, integrate databases on climate, soil, and agricultural production, develop advanced models for national inventories under IPCC Tier 3, and support the formulation of policies such as the ABC+ Plan, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and sectoral mitigation and adaptation strategies. The Alliance’s strategic vision is to act as a national and international reference, avoiding metric fragmentation and providing qualified support for decision-making.
The initial plan foresees six years of activities, with an estimated budget of R$84.3 million, including field experiments, model calibration, and publication of scientific articles. At the end of the presentation, Bastos reinforced that the initiative seeks to build a common path to interpret sustainable agriculture in Brazil, aligning science and market.
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