417 Pablo Francisco Borrelli — Grazing carbon credits: the Trojan horse transforming Argentine grasslands

About this episode

Pablo Francisco Borrelli discusses the development of grazing-based carbon credits in Argentina and their impact on sustainable farming practices.

Argentina has just issued its first grazing-based carbon credits and the story behind them is forty years in the making. Pablo Francisco Borrelli, co-founder of Ruuts, has spent the last decade building the infrastructure to get farmers in Patagonia and beyond paid for what their land is actually doing: sequestering carbon, retaining water, and growing more grass than anyone thought possible. The carbon credit is not the point. It is the door. Once a farmer steps through it and experien...

People in this episode

Host: Koen van Seijen

Guest: Pablo Francisco Borrelli

Topics covered

• carbon credits
• regenerative agriculture
• sustainable farming
• environmental impact
• Argentine grasslands

Keywords

• grazing carbon credits
• sequestering carbon
• sustainable agriculture
• Patagonia
• Argentine grasslands

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ruuts

Places: Argentina, Patagonia

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