{"id":1705,"date":"2024-06-25T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbc.cnpso.embrapa.br\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2024-07-04T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:45:18","slug":"pesquisa-avanca-na-definicao-das-diretrizes-para-certificar-producao-de-soja-baixo-carbono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbc.cnpso.embrapa.br\/en\/noticias\/pesquisa-avanca-na-definicao-das-diretrizes-para-certificar-producao-de-soja-baixo-carbono\/","title":{"rendered":"Research advances in the definition of guidelines to certify low-carbon soybean production"},"content":{"rendered":"
Embrapa and partners are making progress in defining technical guidelines to validate the low-carbon soybean certification methodology. The first version of the document Technical Guidelines for Low Carbon Soybean Certification was published. The document contains the premises to attest to the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Brazil's candidate agricultural production systems. These assumptions are being used to subsidize data collection in more than 60 agricultural areas in five soybean macro-regions, during two harvests (2023\/2024 and 2024\/2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The publication of the certification guidelines at this stage is essential for us to scientifically validate the quantification methodology that is being developed by Embrapa,\" explains the coordinator of the Steering Committee of the Low Carbon Soybean Program (PSBC), Henrique Debiasi, a researcher at Embrapa Soybean (PR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debiasi emphasizes that this is one of the largest Brazilian sectoral initiatives. It aims to add value to soybeans produced in systems that contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions. The Program estimates that, by adopting the sustainable technologies described in the publication, the potential for reducing emissions in soybean production systems can be approximately 30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the researcher, the scope of the PSBC provides for the comparison of typical production systems (agricultural crops used and production practices adopted) with the candidate areas to receive the Low Carbon Soybean (SBC) seal, that is, those that adopt mitigating solutions. \"The goal is to make qualitative and quantitative aspects of the grain tangible, based on agricultural technologies and practices that reduce the intensity of GHG emissions,\" he explains. \"The concept is based on the measurement of benefits and the voluntary certification of production practices that have been proven to result in lower GHG emissions,\" he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n