Carbon credits and biotechnology: would this be the solution for poor and developing countries?

• Autor(a) principal: Esteves Lattanzi, Iasmim
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Alves Daflon, Sarah Dario, Silva Pierri, Bruno da, Monteiro da Fonseca, Estefan
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Sistemas & Gestão
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistasg.uff.br/sg/article/view/1913

Industrialization represents the basis of economic expansion and global urbanization, which stimulates various sectors in parallel with the growth of the world population. By 2050, humanity is expected to reach 9.9 billion, increasing the demand for energy and food by 80% and 70% respectively (Wang et al., 2021). Over the last two centuries, the world economy has developed through the overexploitation of natural resources and the detour and/or imbalance of the biogeochemical cycles on which the biosphere depends. In this context, rampant deforestation to use land for food production, as well as the use of resources such as burning fossil fuels, has led to intensified emissions of anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs), impacting the global climate (Malhi et al., 2021). For example, in 2016, energy and food systems accounted for more than 90% of all global GHG emissions (mainly in the form of CO2). Finally, it is estimated that GHG emissions will increase by 50% by 2050, mainly due to the 70% increase in energy-related CO2 emissions, with direct impacts on the balance of the world's ecosystems and the survival of the biosphere.