Webinar “Approach and Activities in Voluntary Carbon Markets"
Channel: CIMMYT WebCast
Date: 2022-11-25

by
Ramiro Ortega Landa 
Rural Finance Specialist
Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program
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Summary: 
CIMMYT, along with the international development community, has identified climate change as the main global challenge currently disrupting agrifood systems. Its negative impacts, as became evident at the COP 27, are already visible now and will stay for many years to come. 

Within this framework, Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) are quickly becoming key players to support achieving private sector Carbon Net-Zero commitments. For this, under its new proposed architecture, it is crucial for VCMs to offer science-based, high-quality/high integrity Carbon credits.

CIMMYT’s unique position as an internationally recognized scientific and technological leader, strong focus on increasing small farmers’ living conditions and unique institutional role as an innovative broker, places our institution as a highly competitive and relevant “player” in this fast-growing market.  

This presentation describes CIMMYT’s pilot project in the India Carbon Market and discusses its distinctive value proposition to scale-up activities in other markets. This will allow CIMMYT to contributing to C reductions and removals, through carbon farming, and benefitting farmers in the process.  

Ramiro Ortega Landa is an Economic Inclusion, Development Finance, and Agricultural Value Chain Development specialist with over 20 years of professional experience including Afghanistan, Armenia, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

Ramiro holds a Masters’ degree in Public Administration/Applied Microeconomics from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Master’s in International Administration/Development Finance from the School for International Training, USA. Recipient of USAID’s World Award for Innovations in Value Chain Finance; and is CIMMYT’s Rural Finance Specialist and Carbon Markets Team Leader.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Isabel Peña (i.pena@cgiar.org)