Building carbon credits in the voluntary market: a viewpoint

Abstract

The Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN) can participate in environmental protection recognitions when natural resources are used for agri-food systems. A form of strategic participation to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and build adaptation processes to climate change. Carbon transactions in the private market have so far been alien to the academic development of the UTN, however, the incorporation of research processes in the management of tools to modify management to ensure lower emissions and, in turn, increase the carbon stock. The management of tools for verification of protocols used in agro-industrial activities is of great value in a growing voluntary carbon market. Without going against the official forestry market, the voluntary carbon market is an investment alternative for conversion processes to agroecosystems that are more resilient to climate change. There is an opportunity to generate new partnerships in the strengthening of internationally recognized protocols to provide updating options for undergraduate and graduate students in climate change adaptation processes. In this sense, the construction of tool management processes and applicability assessment also requires international verification of compliance with the validity of the results, so that the contribution is endorsed to be used beyond the scope where the equations are generated to support the commercial exchange of carbon from the production units of producers related to agribusiness.