Webinar - Carbon Credits and Livestock: Lessons from Brazil
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K. Gardiner
A South-South Knowledge Exchange Webinar – Part 1
This webinar explored Brazil's experience with carbon credit schemes in the livestock sector, as experts examined current practices, challenges, and opportunities for implementation in West Africa. This 90-minute session brought together specialists from Brazil, Ghana, and Nigeria to to share insights, challenges, and opportunities in implementing carbon credit systems for the livestock sector: share insights on data requirements, certification processes, and cross-sector lessons that could shape the future of sustainable livestock systems.
What You'll Learn?
Get an insider's view of Brazil's land-based carbon credit schemes and their application to livestock systems
Understand the practical challenges and opportunities for implementing similar programs in West Africa
Gain valuable insights from cross-sector experiences in agriculture and forestry
Explore data requirements and certification processes essential for carbon credit qualification
Carbon Credits Knowledge Exchange Webinar 2: Opportunities in Ghana and Nigeria
Webinar highlights
Watch specific parts of the webinar based on your interests, starting at different timestamps in the video:
Speakers
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Ciniro Costa Junior
PositionScientist - Climate, Food Systems and Sustainable Finance, Alliance of Bioversity & CIATCiniro Costa Jr is a Scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (CGIAR) and Lead for Impact of the CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance (Impact SF). His expertise includes climate change mitigation in agriculture, MRV of emissions, net-zero strategies, carbon markets, payments for ecosystem services, and policy analysis. He has led projects with ADB, IDB, FCDO, USAID, the World Bank, and GCF. He is Brazil’s UNFCCC AFOLU expert and advises global sustainability initiatives, such as Climate Bonds Initiative, Verra, and Global Environmental Facility (GEF).
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Lini Wollenberg
PositionClimate Action Policy and Institutions Leader, Alliance of Bioversity International & CIATLini Wollenberg leads research on Policy and Institutions for Climate Action at the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT and Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont. From 2009 to 2021 she led the Low-Emission Development research theme for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. Prior to that Lini worked with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Indonesia, and with the Ford Foundation. She received her PhD in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA and her expertise is in climate change mitigation and food systems. She lived for 14 years in Asia where much of her work focused on Indonesian Borneo.
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Luis Gustavo Barioni
PositionAgronomist and Animal Scientist. Embrapa Agricultural InformaticsDr. Luís Gustavo Barioni is a senior researcher at Embrapa Digital Agriculture and an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. His expertise includes Livestock Nutrition, Tropical Pasturelands, Modeling, Simulation, and Decision Support Systems. He leads Embrapa’s work on the PROCarbon project in partnership with Bayer, focusing on carbon farming in tropical agriculture. Dr. Barioni also has advised on Brazilian policy for Livestock Climate Risk Zoning, NAMAs, NDCs, and low-carbon agriculture.
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Peter Simiyu
PositionHead of Africa, EcosecuritiesPeter Simiyu serves as the Head of Africa at Ecosecurities, a leading carbon project developer and consultancy firm. With over 15 years of expertise in agroecology and climate-smart agriculture, he leads the development of carbon projects across the continent. Ecosecurities specializes in carbon markets, offering comprehensive project development services and strategic advisory support to governments and stakeholders on Article 6 regulations. Ecosecurities plays a key role in advancing global emission reduction initiatives across different sectors, having been in the space for over 27 years.
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Knut Lakså - Moderator
PositionHead of Programmes, Future Horizons InstituteKnut Lakså is a seasoned expert in sustainable development, value-chains, and climate finance, with over 20 years of experience across Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. As Head of Programmes at Future Horizons Institute, he advises on sustainable cattle production and bioeconomy investments in Brazil. A former donor and policy advisor for the Norwegian government, he has overseen multimillion-dollar programmes and contributed to global policy discussions on trade, climate, and sustainable commodities.
About the Initiative
This webinar was part of the Scoping Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Africa (SciCLiSA) project, which examines the potential development of agriculture-based carbon credit schemes in Brazilian livestock systems to inform similar initiatives in Africa, with an initial focus on Ghana and Nigeria.
The discussions were co-hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, the Livestock Data for Decisions Network (LD4D), and the Centre for Centre For Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH). This Scoping Project was supported by the Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa, which was funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and delivered by Innovate UK.
