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We define climate neutrality as CO2-equivalents neutrality and facilitate this by compensating our unavoidable emissions. We compensate by investing in a certified climate protection project, the Paradigm Healthy Cookstoves and Water Treatment Project in Kenia. The project is certified by the internationally recognized Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) seal of approval for high quality climate protection projects. The purpose of this project is the dissemination of improved energy efficient cookstoves in the Republic of Kenya. The project will replace traditional cooking devices with energy efficient cooking ovens, thus reducing the consumption of wood and charcoals. The project also helps to achieve further sustainable development goals that are important to us at SEMENTES VIVAS, such as improving health and providing local income opportunities. In total, 150 tonnes of CO2e were offset in December 2022, including a safety surcharge on our calculated emissions of 118 tonnes. The following link leads to the VERRA registry and confirms the decommissioning of emissions for SEMENTES VIVAS: Verra Registry.
With our climate protection initiative, we are among the pioneers in Portugal. Nevertheless, we are consistently pursuing our climate protection path further and have initiated measures to reduce our emissions in the coming years:
• Switch to green electricity,
• Increase the production of our own clean electricity through photovoltaic,
• Increase energy efficiency and save energy consumption,
• Focus on regional suppliers and partners to reduce transport distances.
We will continue to improve our carbon footprint by avoiding and reducing emissions and offsetting unavoidable emissions to keep SEMENTES VIVAS climate active in the future. Our sustainability project partner will therefore calculate our carbon footprint on an annual basis. The next calculation is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023. Climate protection at our company is on track, making continuous progress, and we hold this as an important priority at SEMENTES VIVAS.
Living Seeds Sementes Vivas SA has initiated an activity to plant one million trees in the area of Idanha to fight against the fires of 2017 where over 90 people died. In idanha exist an association with this title: ASSOCIAÇÃO UM MILHÃO DE ÁRVORES which we are supporting.
Living Seeds jointly with Union Bio Semences is active cooperating to promote legumes for food and also to use as covercrop. If legumes not harvested but integrated just before the fruits arrived all the nitrogen from the air will be stored in the soil. This has two effects: the Nitrogen Oxides in the air are reduced and you avoid artificial nitrogen fertiliser which is usually generated with a loto of fosil fuel (Haber-Bosch method). In addition legumes could be cultivated in Europe instead of importing soja from South America cutting the rainforest. Lving Seeds is engaged in the global beans project and is engaged in research of beans and peas resistent against drought and heat waves.
Living Seeds support convertion of conventional agriculture towards organic and Demeter which reduces the use of chemical fertilisers and herbizides which are mainly generated with strong support of fosil fuel. Organic seeds out of organic plant breeding reduce pollution of the environment and completes a sustainable value chain.