Carbon2Nature (C2N) joins the Forum Forests and Climate Change on the basis of its commitment to the conservation and recovery of Spanish forests as an essential way to contribute to the fight against climate change.

The Forum on Forests and Climate Change is a non-profit association that brings together organizations in the forest sector and other related entities. Since its creation in 2006, it has been working to highlight the role that forests, as well as their products and services, play in climate action and the ecological transition.

With the incorporation of Carbon2Nature into this space for debate and joint work, the company, a subsidiary of Iberdrola, advances in its mission to contribute to the recognition and encouragement of the forestry sector as a generator of long-term sustainable socio-economic development, promoting co-responsibility, sustainable management, and alliances with the rest of the agents.

Madrid, 28 November 2023. Mesta, a company created by Pascual Innoventures and 7r, and Carbon2Nature, a new firm launched by Iberdrola to reduce the global carbon footprint through nature-based solutions, join forces to promote decarbonisation in the primary sector. They will reduce methane emissions from the enteric fermentation process in livestock farming through a strategic alliance which, in turn, will provide strong social and economic support for the agri-food industry.

Thanks to this agreement, the two companies will co-develop an innovative pilot project focused on acting on methane emissions, a greenhouse gas with an impact 80 times greater than CO₂ over a period of 20 years and a permanence in the atmosphere of more than a decade. In particular, the project has a first phase of implementation where it is estimated that 600 tons of CO₂ equivalent (CO₂e) emitted by the cows of several farms supplying Pascual will be eliminated. The initiative is designed to evolve and expand to other livestock farms with the aim of exceeding 5,000 tonnes of CO₂ avoided by 2025.

The program is based on improving the cows’ feed, always maintaining their productivity and wellbeing. Dairy cows will receive precision feeding through a specific supplement that reduces between 10% and 20% their methane emissions from enteric fermentation.

These reductions will be certified through an accredited entity and will be registered as carbon credits that can be purchased by companies committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the primary sector. These credits will be traceable back to their origin thanks to Trinity AgTech’s blockchain technology and will receive certification from EQA.

In this respect Diego Paradinas, CEO of MESTA points out that “this alliance between two leading companies, which share the same business philosophy, allows us to move forward in the construction of a more prosperous and sustainable future. We have made a joint commitment, and this is none other than positioning ourselves as drivers of change.”

For his part, Miguel Ángel García Tamargo, director of Carbon2Nature, points out that, “this project is part of our innovation line to support emerging decarbonization solutions with great potential to scale thanks to carbon finance. Together with a reference in the dairy sector such as Pascual, this pilot allows us to address an important source of emissions, difficult to eliminate and which, to date, has received little research and funding. Its success will bring significant benefits to the agricultural sector, helping to decouple its climate impact from production.”

Currently, the project is implemented in six farms located in the provinces of León, Lugo, Palencia and Pontevedra which, in addition to contributing significantly to reducing the impact of the activity of the agri-food sector, also serve as social and economic support or for their local communities. In this way, the project is also positioned as a driving tool for the transformation and revitalization of the rural environment.