41st Week Carbon Credit Markets 2025. COP30 Preparations; COP Experience; Agriculture: Biochar, ICPF, Carbon, Superwood, Brazil, United States, Europe, Africa and the Americas advance in actions
- Art Dam
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Monday, 20 October 2025.
Before the highlights of the 41st Carbon Credit Markets 2025 week, check out our COP30 coverage.
Leading up to COP30, our programming will temporarily change: starting today, content will have a more dynamic format and increased frequency, closely following the conference's main events—as we did at COP28 in Dubai.
Carbon Credit Markets is part of the COP Experience coalition, ensuring strategic, multichannel coverage direct from Belém. Check out the helpful links at the end of the page.
And now, let’s dive into today’s content: the essential Agribusiness. Next week, the spotlight will be on Hydrogen — the new and silent industrial revolution. And all of this, of course, always intertwined with our central theme: Carbon Credits.
Agriculture positions itself ahead of COP30, with emphasis on the creation of the AgriZone. Meanwhile, Europe advances scientifically in agricultural adaptation, its industry takes concrete steps toward biochar, and the U.S. proposes a law focused on carbon removal in biofuel production.
Brazilian agriculture reveals its economic and social complexity in a new publication by Embrapa, along with updates on Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry (ICLF). The carbon market gains momentum with a study from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, offering inclusive proposals for small Brazilian producers. Citrus farming advances with high-integrity carbon credits, and the memory of an agronomist revives the visionary roots of sustainable agriculture in the country.
Africa and the Americas join forces in cooperation to regenerate soils and mitigate emissions in agribusiness. A comparative study highlights the technical rigor of Brazilian land-use legislation, and a new “super wood” promises to revolutionize sustainable construction with high performance and a low carbon footprint.
Enjoy the read — as we continue to await the NDCs from key players such as the European Union, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico…
🚜 COP30 will be a strategic opportunity for Brazil to showcase its experience in sustainable tropical agriculture to the world, highlighting practices that combine productivity with environmental conservation. According to Roberto Rodrigues, former Minister of Agriculture and special envoy to the conference, the Brazilian model can be replicated in countries with similar climates, strengthening South-South cooperation. During the event, a document will be launched on the 50 years of evolution of Brazilian agriculture, highlighting the role of science, technology, and regenerative management in overcoming the challenges of tropical soils. This international showcase reinforces Brazil's ability to lead tropical climate solutions, positioning agriculture as part of the solution to the climate crisis, not just a vector of pressure.
🚜 What to expect from AgriZone at COP30?
Embrapa - Brazilian public agricultural research company - announced the selected proposals for AgriZone some time ago, a strategic space in Belém that will connect agricultural science to the COP30 discussions. With approximately 65% of the initiatives coming from Brazil—including universities, cooperatives, and companies—and 35% from countries like Canada, France, Japan, the USA, and Germany, AgriZone reflects a global collaboration for sustainability. Integrated into the Climate Journey and supported by names such as Senar, Nestlé, Bayer, IICA, Caixa, and Sebrae, the program promises to highlight agro-environmental solutions capable of transforming the future of the planet. See the full list of approximately 350 approved proposals below and read an article about it here (in Portuguese).
🇪🇺 Nature: How to prepare European agriculture for the future?
With global warming threatening agricultural production, interest in regenerative agriculture, which values soil and biodiversity, and reduces the use of chemical inputs, is growing in Europe. Despite protests that led the EU to backtrack on environmental requirements and criticism over limited financial incentives, experts see potential in this approach to meet climate goals. Here the Nature article.
🇳🇱 Carbo Culture announces its first industrial carbon removal facility in Europe, located in Middenmeer, the Netherlands. The system uses biomass pyrolysis to produce horticultural-grade biochar, permanently removing over 20,000 tons of CO₂ per year. The plant also generates 16 MW of renewable energy, integrating into the local agricultural ecosystem through partnerships with ECW Energy and Royalpride. The biochar is applied as a substrate in greenhouses and subsequently incorporated into the soil, promoting long-term carbon sequestration and improving agronomic efficiency. ARC Middenmeer represents a replicable model of industrial decarbonization with energy and agricultural co-benefits.
🇺🇸 BECCS Advancement Commission Act of 2025, a bipartisan proposal to accelerate the use of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) in the U.S. despite the government shutdown. The bill would create a federal commission with representatives from the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Interior, as well as industry leaders, to guide BECCS policies and projects, focusing on clean energy, wildfire mitigation, and rural development.
🚜 Economic Dynamics and the World of Work in Rural Brazil is a 750-page collection published by EMBRAPA in 2025. It brings together 61 authors from 27 institutions to analyze how Brazilian agriculture evolved from a marginal sector to a central axis of the economy, highlighting its political, social, territorial, and environmental complexity. The book proposes a national, state-by-state, and integrated reading of rural trajectories and agricultural activities, overcoming regional analytical models of the past.
🇧🇷Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry (ICLF). About improvements in management aimed at both income and carbon accumulation by trees. Brazil completes the first 12 years of study on crop-livestock-forest systems. See the results.
🇳🇱 Understanding the Carbon Credit Market in Brazilian Agriculture. This report commissioned by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Brazil, analyzes the potential of Brazilian agriculture for generating carbon credits and proposes strategic solutions to strengthen an inclusive market adapted to the tropical context, with a focus on COP30 and the appreciation of small and medium-sized producers. See below.
🇧🇷 An unprecedented program for citrus farming focused on high-integrity carbon credits launched by Citrosuco and Itaú BBA at Climate Week NYC. Didn't hear about it? See the press release below (in Portuguese).
🚜 Long before regenerative agriculture and carbon credits entered the global vocabulary, Oswaldo Damasceno—a young agronomist in 1935—was already championing ideas that we now recognize as pillars of sustainable agriculture. In an article published in the newspaper Correio da Manhã, he discussed soil as a living organism, the agronomist's role as an educator, and the urgency of bringing science to the field, where improvisation still reigned.
“By always using the same land, the farmer’s work will be greatly eased…; the virgin forest will shelter the birds, his friends in the war against crop pests, will oxygenate the air and will shelter the trees within it…”.
His vision, almost a century ago, clearly anticipated the importance of respecting the earth's cycles, preserving forests, and training professionals aware that farming is part of a larger system — ecological, social, and economic. In a world that has grown from 2.3 billion to over 8 billion people seeking food and water, his words sound even more urgent.
This text is a tribute to his legacy—and an invitation: may we learn to listen to the visionaries of the present, but also to those of the past, who already pointed the way and cared about the future generations. Thank you, Grandpa Oswaldo.
🌍 Africa and the Americas Join Forces for Sustainable Agriculture.
The "Living Soils" initiative, launched in 2024 by AGRA and IICA unites Africa and the Americas in South-South cooperation to restore degraded soils, increase agricultural productivity, and strengthen climate resilience. Expanding a successful program in the Americas to 11 African countries, the initiative promotes the sharing of sustainable technologies and public policies aimed at soil regeneration.
Studies conducted by CCARBON / USP estimate that adopting good management practices on 30% of agricultural land in the Americas could sequester up to 13.1 billion tons of CO₂ equivalent in 20 years, mitigating approximately 40% of emissions from the agricultural sector. This approach positions soils as strategic assets in the fight against climate change and in building sustainable and transformative agriculture.
🌳Legislation and land use: an international comparison between Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, and the United States. Here's a post in which Carbon Credit Markets discussed this 2017 study. And here's a video posted by Antonio Cabrera on LinkedIn with an aerial view of native vegetation reserves bordering watercourses in an agricultural region in Brazil.
🪵 Have you heard of the new "superwood"? Developed by advanced materials startup InventWood, SUPERWOOD is an engineered wood that combines lightness and strength: up to 10 times stronger than steel by weight and 6 times lighter. The result of research at the University of Maryland, its production has a low environmental impact, emitting up to 90% less CO₂ than steel and keeping biogenic carbon sequestered for decades. It's a promising solution for sustainable construction and interior design with a reduced carbon footprint. The company's website features technical data, patents, applications, and much more!
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