Carbon Neutralization

from the forest to you
carbon neutralization in 7 steps
  • Reforestation projects in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest remove CO2 of the atmosphere
  • Every 1 ton of CO2 sequestered, 1 carbon credit is issued and certified by Verra (carbon certifier)
  • EKOSFERA buys and retires the carbon credit so that it can be used only once, by consumers like YOU
  • The credit purchased by EKOSFERA is divided into a limited number of individual certificates
  • The certificates are then tokenized, becoming verifiable and traceable digital assets via blockchain technology.
  • When purchasing an EKOSFERA product or service, you receive one of these certificates, as an environmental benefit for your conscious consumption
  • The carbon credits received neutralize part of your carbon footprint due to CO2 removed from the atmosphere by Brazilian forests, as described in step 1

Examples of burnout you earn
in an EKOSFERA experience:

1 day

with DE MENDES

When purchasing a Chocolates De Mendes product, you offset 1 day of individual GHG emissions into the atmosphere.

I want to learn more about carbon offsetting

Understanding the concept of carbon offsetting can be a bit tricky. terms like emissions inventory, tokenized credits It is blockchain scare at first, but are important to understand the size of your carbon footprint on the planet, how it relates to global warming and how EKOSFERA helps you become one transformation agent. Come with us!

In this section, you will find:

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

O scientific consensus it is clear: the planet is heating up at an unprecedented rate. The evidence collected by the main climate experts over the past few decades have already proven that this warming exceeds natural variations in average temperature that Earth has recorded for millennia.

There are also no more doubts about the cause of this imbalance, that is, it is common ground that the human activities are at the root of the crisis. Since the beginning of the Industrial era (1750), the planet warmed up to about 1.1°C due to the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, released by fossil fuel burning.

As Paris Agreement, the countries decided to promote efforts to limit this temperature increase to 1.5°C, which will require profound changes in many aspects of human life. Given this, and because of our delay in acting to prevent the most worrying scenarios, the expression “climate change” no longer captures the dimension and urgency of the problem. We enter the phase of climate emergency.

AND THE CARBON IN THIS WHOLE STORY?

When we mention carbon, we are talking about carbon dioxide (CO2) or, in an equivalent and simplified way, of other GHGs, such as methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (No2O) and fluorinated gases. Although it has a lower greenhouse effect potential than the others, the CO2 it is the most relevant GHG because it is the current champion of emissions caused by human beings.
To understand the relevance of CO2 in the climate emergency, we first need to understand the carbon cycle, that is, how it “appears” and “disappears” from the atmosphere. Although this gas is naturally produced by our breathing and by the decomposition of plants and animals, its biggest sources are the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
On the other hand, the main sinks of CO2, that is, our allies in the task of removing a good part of this GHG from the atmosphere, are the oceans (recognized today as the true “lungs of the Earth”) and the forests (plants and soil). Although they are also sources of CO2, oceans and forests absorb much more carbon than they emit.

GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE - ANNUAL VALUES 

GLOBAL BALANCE OF CARBON DIOXIDE – 2006-2015
(In billions of tons of carbon dioxide per year)

Source: Climate Change: Everything You Wanted and Didn't Want to Know / Sergio Margulis. – Rio de Janeiro: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2020.
The carbon cycle is a natural part of life on Earth, but the industrial age has led to a surge in emissions that has caused a high concentration of CO2.2 In the atmosphere. With more carbon in the atmosphere, the greater its potential for the greenhouse effect, which causes an increase in the average temperature of the planet. Global warming, in turn, causes a climate imbalance that manifests itself in extreme events, leading to impacts in all areas of human, animal and plant life.
Source: Climate Change: Everything You Wanted and Didn't Want to Know / Sergio Margulis. – Rio de Janeiro: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2020.

YOU AS TRANSFORMATION AGENT
SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL

The good news is that EKOSFERA can help you! We need to curb the emission of GHGs such as CO2 and urgently accelerate the sequestration of these gases from the atmosphere. But how? The good news is that EKOSFERA can help you! We believe that each person has a role to play in the transition to a greener, fairer and safer world. Including you!

First let's talk about your carbon footprint. This expression refers to the GHG emissions that you cause with the activities you carry out on a daily basis. See below some examples of how each of us impacts the carbon cycle. Currently, each person in Brazil emits, on average, around 8.3 tons of carbon dioxide per year, which is equivalent to around 23 kg CO2 per day.

Energy consumption

Water consumption

Eating habits

everyday transport

Trips

Garbage and waste disposal

With the EKOSFERA, you have the opportunity to calculate your carbon footprint and still neutralize part of your GHG emissions. Knowing our impact leads us to rethink habits and lifestyles in favor of a real change.

HOW DOES NEUTRALIZATION WORK?
CARBON IN THE EKOSPHERE

EKOSFERA buys credits that are generated from REDD+ Projects (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), through the preservation of Brazilian forests and the reforestation of degraded areas, as well as investments in environmental technologies, contributing to the socioeconomic development of traditional communities.

But it is not enough to plant trees to acquire this benefit. Carbon credits need to be verified and issued by a legitimate certifying institution.

At EKOSFERA, we use Verra, the organization that manages the main and most reliable quality standard in the voluntary carbon market, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).

Verra certifies that a certain REDD+ project developed, for example, in the Brazilian Amazon, sequestered or avoided the emission of 1 ton of CO2e thus issues the carbon credit.

When purchasing it, EKOSFERA divides the carbon credit into a limited number of individual certificates, which necessarily total the amount of CO2e converted into credit. Thus, EKOSFERA does not create credit, it just buys it and divides it into smaller parts to distribute them to its consumers as a form of benefit.

1 TOKEN

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CO2

NEUTRALIZED

These individual certificates are tokenized. A token is the digital representation of an asset, which, in this case, is the certification that a certain amount of carbon has been neutralized.

TRACEABILITY

BLOCKCHAIN

This token receives a unique identification code, a sequence of letters and numbers, which is registered via blockchain technology. This means that it is possible to trace the origin of the neutralization of your emissions, that is, you can know which sustainable project offset the carbon you released into the atmosphere. 

To learn more about blockchain traceability at EKOSFERA, Click here.

RETIREMENT

Finally, it is important to understand that the credits acquired by EKOSFERA are retired credits, that is, they serve exclusively to neutralize its carbon emissions. They can no longer be traded because they have already fulfilled their neutralizing role.

 

UNDERSTAND YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT

Currently, each person in Brazil emits, on average, around 8.3 tons of carbon dioxide per year, which is equivalent to around 23 kg CO2 per day!

1

To arrive at the value of
individual emissions per day,
we take into account the
total CO emissions2 of
Brazil in the year.*

2
Then we subtract the
avoided emissions of
protected areas and other
environmental initiatives.*
3

Finally, we share this
subtraction (net emissions)
by the Brazilian population in
respective years
(data from IBGE).

4
To find the issue
per inhabitant, we divide
for 365 days of the year.
5

Currently, every person
in Brazil emits, on average,
about 8.3 tons
of carbon dioxide per year,
which is equivalent to approximately
23 kg CO2 per day!

*Since the publication of annual data occurs in the subsequent year (2021 emissions were published in November 2022, for example), we use the most recent emissions available each year (for the year 2023 we use the 2021 data published in November 2022).

2019 2020 2021 2022
Total Emissions Brazil*: (+) 2,147,507,008 tCO2 2,160,663,755 tCO2 2,422,625,065 tCO2 2,318,750,633 tCO2
Total removals*: (-) 604,718,128 tCO2 635,000,000 tCO2 666,915,168 tCO2 629,697,259 tCO2
Net Emissions: (=) 1,542,788,880 tCO2 1,525,663,755 tCO2 1,755,709,897 tCO2 1,688,783,374 tCO2
Population Brazil**: (/) 210.147.125 211.755.692 214.016.154 203.080.756
Average Emission per Inhabitant: (=) 7.3 tCO2/hab/year 7.0 tCO2/hab/year 8.2 tCO2/hab/year 8.3 tCO2/hab/year
Days in the Year: (/) 365 365 365 365
Average Emission per Inhab. per Day: (=) 25kg CO2 20kg CO2 23kg CO2 23kg CO2
*Source of GHG emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation System of the Climate Observatory (SEEG) SEEG annually updates the values from previous years. The table above maintains the original values published at the end of each year. **Source Population Brazil: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Examples of neutralization you gain in an EKOSFERA experience:

1 day

with DE MENDES

When purchasing a Chocolates De Mendes product, you offset 1 day of individual GHG emissions into the atmosphere.

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