Technological process for implementing eco-efficiency in sustainable agricultural economic activity

Abstract

The present invention relates to a process comprising a system which supports core technologies involving sustainable agriculture methods, reforestation, agroforestry methods, irrigation methods, soil improvement, inter alia, aimed at mitigating climate change and at adapting to its adverse effects. It provides an assessment of the state of the environment across the entire ecosystem and surroundings and produces a critical mass substantiated by technical information capable of optimising technologies for sustainable agricultural, farming and agro-industry activity to ensure evolution in the direction of sustainable development when suitability for favouring ecological conditions is identified. The present process further determines the valuation of environmental assets, assesses their current state and issues corresponding environmental assets, as well as other features.

Description

“TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY” Field of Invention

[0001] The invention belongs notably to the technical fields of Ecology and Certification; and, additionally, to the fields of Information Technology, Telemetry, Environmental Jurimetrics, Environmental Intelligence, Green Technology and Innovation, Sustainable Agriculture, Agroforestry Technology, Agriculture and Agroindustry, Climatology, Geography, Geology, Physics, Hydrology, Botany, Chemistry, Food Safety. Background of the Invention

[0002] Ecology is divided into subdisciplines that interact and complement each other, encompassing knowledge from the natural sciences, exact sciences, social sciences, and philosophy. Over the past 50 years, the study of changes to the biosphere and its diverse ecosystems caused by human actions has evolved into the concept of Human Ecology, which has led to new theories and inventions.

[0003] It is noted that databases and technical analyses on environmental assets have been restricted to isolated factors, sparse selections of environmental items that look to the past and lack a systemic foundation based on the integrated realities of relationships between living beings in nature.

[0004] Qualitative and quantitative assessments are available, but they do not provide an objective synergistic assessment of ecosystem conditions regarding the effects of a current moment on the future fate of the Planet.

[0005] The international reference for measuring the wealth and income of nations, the so-called "System of National Accounts 2008" (SNA) under the coordination of the United Nations (UN), fails to take into account relevant aspects of the climate and environmental reality of a monetary, open economy with a government.

[0006] Thus, notable situations in the practical applications of the SNA, especially the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), are common points, such as:

[0007] - Only commercial production of natural resources is recognized (e.g., raw wood).

[0008] - Degradation or depletion of natural resource stocks, also only commercial, are only recognized when of a “non-renewable” nature, despite ecosystems and resources located therein being liable to become unviable.

[0009] - Includes expenses for exploration, maintenance and even restoration, but not the valuation of the damage caused or original.

[0010] - A polluting factory that causes the degradation of natural resources and ecosystems impacts income and wealth, and therefore, a loss of social well-being. While it can continue without financial penalties, the impacts generated by the factory remain unmeasured in the National Health System (SNA) and GDP.

[0011] To better understand these distortions, the UN launched the "System of Economic-Environmental Accounts 2012" (SEEA). The methodology focuses on the interdependence between economic sectors and the environment, represented in the framework through the physical state of natural resource stocks. However, the SEEA accounts remain satellite accounts and are not included in the SNA.

[0012] The private sector has also been mobilizing. Notable examples include the Institute for Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the International Financial Reporting Standards, which on June 26, 2023, released the first two IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, IFRS S1 and IFRS S2.

[0013] There appears to be a technical consensus in society regarding the need, albeit belated, to improve and revise methods for assessing and valuing the role that environmental assets play in economic activity. However, how to address the gap between what current environmental methods ascertain and the real economic consequences for national and private income and wealth remains unclear.

[0014] Data integration in agribusiness has been offered, at most, in conjunction with legal, ethical, and economic aspects related to governance in agricultural supply chains, artificial intelligence, big data, and information protection in the agricultural sector. However, there is currently no data integration system in the environmental sector that addresses the needs of the private sector and provides a practical mechanism for verifying said integration when it comes to the determinants of environmental sustainability (ecological, economic, and social), identified in the repercussions of past / present ecosystem conditions for a future that demonstrates a sustainable standard, the best choice for biomes and species, including humans on Earth, threatened by dangerous climate change.

[0015] The techniques to date do not offer integration with automated knowledge generation capable of enabling adequate comparative intervention on land (in the broad sense), as well as in the ecosystems of the same biome and its elements or of the same landscape, to the point of guaranteeing the achievement of the necessary quality standard and the maintenance of the environment at an "ecologically balanced" level, especially when it comes to taking measures to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.

[0016] For example, there is still no tool that indicates what should be considered healthy soil. This is because one of the complexities of officially defining soil health is the lack of agreement on indicators and threshold values ​​due to the unique characteristics and high spatial variability of global soils. Yet, current agricultural practices have caused soils to erode globally up to 100 times faster than natural processes can replenish them. Seventy percent of all ice-free land has already been altered, impacting more than 3.2 billion people. It is estimated that a total of 90 percent of Earth's precious topsoil will likely be at risk by 2050 (FAO, UNCCD 2023).

[0017] Furthermore, it should be noted that sustainability inventions are not always associated with processes, as opposed to utility models. When it comes to processes, the action is generally direct on the environment. In the case of the process claimed in the present invention, it enables the visualization, understanding, and framing of the state of the environment throughout the ecosystem and surrounding area, including the global impact of the intervention, producing a critical mass, embodied in technical information capable of optimizing other technologies whose use has the potential to favor ecological conditions. The system enhances environmental quality beyond preexisting technologies, as it connects them by a level of (indexed) technical knowledge and subsequently induces the human-machine relationship to the highest level of environmental quality.

[0018] In this context, the process claimed in the present invention offers a technological instrument for abstracting the environmental attributes of the lands subject to the respective application and minimizing technical uncertainties, given the lack of integration in the usual databases and analyses; it offers interpretation and integration of automated specialized knowledge capable of enabling those who carry out intervention in the ecosystem to identify, know, compare, weigh hypotheses and understand the environmental problems in their interdependent factors that need to be worked on, in a coordinated manner, to avoid damage or threats to the environment and, further, achieve and maintain sustainability (in the ecological, economic and social tripod approach) over time (durable technology), particularly in scenarios of increasing the average global climate temperature.The process claimed in the present invention extracts the attributes of nature from the territory so that, knowing its benefits, limitations and ecosystem conditions, the investor can act in favor of a transformational change towards a more sustainable world, that is, an ecologically balanced environment with a less intense impact from climate change.

[0019] As the technology of the process claimed in the present invention verifies the richness of the ecological heritage of a given territory, the system recognizes the presence of environmental assets in an intersecting manner between elements such as carbon, water, soil, biodiversity, all quantified and qualified by levels that classify them in a unified (indexed) manner within the framework of environmental management standards and the logic disciplined by national and subnational, foreign, international public policies and by regulatory and scientific bodies; with these inputs, the process optimizes the sector's technologies, since their efficient implementation requires increased eco-innovation;and accredits the measures for adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change, which can be implemented in the areas covered by the model before competent forums, applicable records, industrial processes (especially agro-industrial) and environmental asset trading platforms in the form of tokens distributed on blockchain and temporal monitoring, over the years of implementation of the process claimed in the present invention, of environmental conditions and results of quantitative and qualitative evolution of the ecological heritage.;

[0020] The aforementioned adaptation measures refer to the technological means of implementing adaptation, in accordance with the definition provided by the UNFCCC, in the following terms:

[0021] "Adaptation to climate change refers to the process of adjusting natural and human systems to current and future climate behavior. In human systems, adaptation seeks to reduce and avoid potential harm or exploit beneficial opportunities arising from climate change. In natural systems, human intervention seeks to support the adjustment of these systems to current and future climate and its effects." (IPCC, 2014)

[0022] In the case of soil quality, the process claimed in the present invention assumes that the definition of soil health "should be based on a scientific and contemporary understanding of the living soil ecosystem and consider the full range of soil properties and functions," drawing inspiration from the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) (ITPS: 2023. Available at: https: / / www.fao.org / global-soil-partnership / itps / en / . Accessed: April 21, 2023)], which defines it as "the capacity of the soil to sustain the productivity, diversity, and environmental services of terrestrial ecosystems." Based on this premise, the process claimed in the present invention develops a current equation developed to compose the soil index, using Random Spatial Fields as a guide in understanding the current and future state and use of the soil.The development of the equations was based directly on the mathematical approach to causality of the process index of the present invention, based on the current land use status. The qualitative result of these indicators constitutes an index of environmental assets, which "activate" ecosystems as the determining conditions for agroindustrial production improve and the adoption of sustainable agroforestry technology proves more efficient.

[0023] Otherwise, in the case of biodiversity, the system captures the status of the elements of nature in terms of the value of the species and the interaction between them within the area, biome, region, type of cultivation or activity carried out in that territory; and reorders them by the environmental attribute factor that is ecologically and simultaneously useful for the sustainability (integrated approach from an ecological, economic and social perspective) of these species combined with the conditions in which the environmental value is sufficiently capable of leading to development, also sustainable, with a focus on improving agro-industrial productivity.

[0024] The current method of indicating the value of biodiversity based on ecosystem health is imbued, in the process index claimed in this invention, with the overlay of the current mapping of endangered (or at-risk) species based on available data from a variety of renowned international institutes, government agencies, multilateral forums, and conservation researchers. These include, but are not limited to: the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), among others, which provide support for surveys demarcating the relevance of the area overlapping the mapping.Likewise, scenarios and estimates regarding the adverse effects of climate change, such as the Adaptabrasil system of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI).

[0025] In the method claimed in the present invention, the dataset is included as "metadata" of indicators to be used in the assessment, positioned as response elements to predefined preservation / conservation obligations. Compliance parameters are defined in layers, including, for example, the general framework assembled with the indicators absorbed from the CBD objectives and successive decisions.

[0026] The indicators in this area reflect changes in biodiversity status (or pressures, responses, use, or capacity), relative to baselines, current legislation, and the environmental status during the research period. The rationale used is strictly based on the decisions and consensus reached at the Conferences of the Parties (CoPs), periodically held by the United Nations within the framework of treaties.

[0027] The biodiversity index of the process claimed in this invention considers the implementation of agricultural practices that promote agrobiodiversity, that is, the result of the interaction between the environment, genetic resources, and management practices, encompassing the variety and variability of animals, plants, and microorganisms necessary to sustain key functions of the agroecosystem, including its structure and processes in support of food production and food security. The process develops an index that allocates agrobiodiversity to the overall biodiversity driver contained in the mathematical procedures performed on a given area of ​​land; and serves as one of the drivers for its valuation, within its relative importance to other biodiversity indicators.

[0028] In addition to the indexes explained, the process claimed in the present invention generates the hydrological index, based on premises and criteria established based on scarcity, water quality, among other factors.

[0029] Focusing on the climate issue, the process responds to the need to adapt to the negative effects of climate change, to adopt actions in favor of environmental preservation and the reduction of net GHG emissions, hence its relevance as a technological solution for green innovation in response to the needs arising from the increase in the global average climate temperature.

[0030] In this line, a differential of the process technology of the present invention is to make use of the state of the art of sciences that study the relationships between man and the planet and to constitute itself as a unique detection tool, by performing an interpretation of the stage of conservation / preservation resulting from the management of a set of technological instruments that involve specialized diagnosis, data analysis, registration, formatting of environmental assets, dissemination of transversal knowledge about areas / properties, channeling into useful procedures (integrated flows) to identify the level at which environmental micro-goods should be distributed, classification by conduction according to sufficient parameters of evolution of the environmental macro-good (universality of environmental goods) in a development that can be absorbed individually and collectively,scaling by comparable durability of time and information initially disaggregated but which become transversally connected in terms of indexable repercussions at the aggregate level and, according to the observed success of environmental performance provided by agroforestry technology, are certified as being at a minimum standard of sustainability.,

[0031] The process claimed in this green innovation invention belongs to the field of Certifications. Today, certifications support a wide range of segments of society in implementing national public policies, as they formally attest to the quality of services, processes, and products, including companies' environmental management.

[0032] The process of the present invention performs verification by abstracting the qualities / quantities of environmental attributes from the flow; distributes these attributes according to environmental return capacity levels, by positive environmental impact to be optimized or, as the case may be, by negative impact that can be amortized; and demonstrates the conditions for increasing the efficiency of the activity when adopting alternative technologies to preserve nature (at least carbon, water, soil, and biodiversity) and prevent threats and damage to the environment. By applying the process claimed in the present invention to a certain area of ​​the territory, the environmental sustainability of agricultural and forestry activities becomes tangible, as it becomes visible through the processed data that are synergistically contained in successive tokens on the blockchain.In short, environmental (systemic) assets explain whether (and to what extent) the area makes up part of the ecologically balanced environment, to what extent and with what measures the ecological heritage can be enriched in the territory (object of the system's application) and increase the performance of the food, textile, forestry, and energy agroindustries, among other segments of the economic and social activity sector that depend on environmental assets but that, simultaneously, can contribute through a commitment to the use of techniques for better environmental performance.

[0033] All this is done in order to achieve the lowest possible economic impact and the greatest success in the necessary adaptation to the negative effects of climate change, according to the UNFCCC, art. 2: "(...) ARTICLE 2 – OBJECTIVE. The ultimate objective of this Convention and of any related legal instruments adopted by the Conference of the Parties is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Convention, the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. This level should be achieved within a sufficient timeframe to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened, and to allow economic development to continue in a sustainable manner." (UNFCCC, art. 2, emphasis added).

[0034] In the process claimed in the present invention, this verification checks the presence of the conditions authorizing the issuance of identified assets. According to the system's methodology, the collected data, once processed through specialized interpretation, is transformed into technical inputs assembled for the cycle of the activity carried out in the area subject to assessment. Finally, once recorded in a digital ledger (blockchain) and digitally authenticated (tokenization process), they remain immutable, accessible, shareable, and traceable, for subsequent notarial registration linked to the property registry. Over time, they are combined with new applicable information (by territory, region, biome; or by similarity, for comparison purposes). The system intelligently and transparently brings eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness to the carbon and environmental asset market.

[0035] The population's ecological footprint and the production model of goods that follows the tactic of planned obsolescence have caused climate change, atmospheric pollution, excess waste, and the use of natural resources beyond the planet's replenishment capacity. Responses and solutions to these problems are urgently needed. Climate science has developed under the leadership of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), within the framework of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

[0036] The panel is focused on assisting countries. However, the private sector and individuals only have access to the IPCC reports, released every four years. There is a whole landscape of explanations about the environment, the implications of climate change, and behavioral changes aimed at adaptability, increased climate resilience, and reduced vulnerabilities. These must be absorbed into economic activities and, over time, internalized for the benefit of people and their companies in technological processes. In other words, green technologies are needed that work with these contents, internalizing them into operations.

[0037] The process claimed in the present invention fills this gap, constituting a means of implementation by the individual based on the provision of the system that provides a mechanism for detection, interpretation, generation of environmental assets corresponding to the areas analyzed and processing of environmental improvements from environmental micro-goods to the environmental macro-good.The system recognizes that the offers of mechanisms legally regulated by the Public Authorities, such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM) of the Paris Agreement, the Payment for Environmental Services (PES), and the Green Rural Producer's Certificate (CPR) are insufficient, since in order to be accredited in these, prior knowledge of the in situ environment's capabilities is required – and it is this technology (prior to the use of other mechanisms) that the process claimed in the present invention makes viable by bringing a climate-environmental model that is input to any formatting of institutionalized procedures for the market.The technology of the process claimed in the present invention is not a competitor or substitute for these other existing mechanisms or policies; it is complementary and synergistic, since, at the same time as it composes structuring elements for the viability of these mechanisms, it provides them with formats that can subsidize the implementation of national public policies (such as, in Brazil, Law No. 14,119 / 2021, which established the PES policy) or international policies (such as the UNFCCC).

[0038] According to estimates of global temperature rise, other adverse impacts will occur on economies, life forms, and ecological conditions. The legal system employs several implementation mechanisms: rules, agreements / contracts, protocols, certifications, programs, initiatives, actions, agendas, and guidelines for implementing standards, as well as international treaties to which the country is a party and therefore obliged to contribute to the achievement of global objectives.

[0039] Nationally, subnationally, and regionally in Latin America and the Caribbean, there is a framework of mechanisms: public policies, legislation, rulings, and corporate actions that meet the urgent need for environmental conservation that provides a healthy quality of life for the population.

[0040] The assumption is that those who possess natural resources are unaware of its richness and the various effects of its permanence. Preservation is logical for a biologist, but not necessarily for a "layman," and even for a layperson, only when it comes to accessing the attributes of nature present in a given territory.

[0041] The system works as follows: when data is collected from the environment, a kind of "snapshot" of the natural elements and conditions is created. This "snapshot" is then inserted into the token and "processed" to incorporate calculations, improvement ideas, and guidance that extends positive actions to enhance the respective attributes over time (at least 10 years). Based on the representation of the situation and performance of environmental conditions, the system classifies environmental attributes to achieve alignment with the standards and procedures of international organizations and national legislation.

[0042] As a result, the recording process occurs through tokenization and subsequent notarization of the certification, as well as the use, dissemination, storage in a repository, tracking, and exploitation of environmental information. Therefore, it is a complex process; the methodology requires defining pathways for these ideals of high environmental quality and subsequently translating ideas developed since the startup's inception. These ideas link the design of the environmental asset database system to the steps that must be taken so that the process claimed in this invention brings together the intrinsic values ​​of environmental assets by recognizing the attributes of nature according to the qualities and quantity of the respective states in which each element is found, both isolated and synergistically.

[0043] Below, the invention will be further detailed with the help of the figures that accompany the attached document, where: Fig. 1

[0044] [Fig. 1] illustrates a block diagram of the Invention Process for Land Due Diligence, the full description of which associated with the image can be found in the Invention Description Section. Fig. 2

[0045] [Fig. 2] illustrates the proprietary process of using the carbon balance verification tool in agricultural areas, natural landscapes and / or landscapes. Detailed Description of the Invention

[0046] The patent modality applied for for the invention of the process claimed in this invention is a Green Patent, as it is a green innovation technology—incremental to eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness—applicable to sustainable agroforestry activities and agroindustry. One of the novelties of the process claimed in this invention is the system's ability to subsidize the owner [i.e., of rural properties, such as farm owners, but not necessarily, which in the process may designate the figure of the squatter, lessee, or equivalent, in common agreement with the former or official legal representation, and even in urban areas but with agricultural sector activity] regarding the environmental attributes of the analyzed area through verification and corresponding certification of environmental conditions: climate-ecosystem data,worked through the exploration of possibilities and alternatives of the environment's capacities in terms of effective performance and potential of ecosystem services by the criteria of quality and quantity in the matters of carbon, water, soil, biodiversity and, in this sense, open a range of alternatives for operationalizing sustainable agriculture technology and insertion in accreditation procedures for various utilities, such as facilitating eligibility for institutionalized mechanisms thanks to the interpretation made of the data, formatted in tokens.,

[0047] The innovation here lies in the invisibility of environmental values ​​within the territory until this extraction of value content interspersed with the demands of achieving and maintaining an ecologically balanced environment is carried out. Value is imbued in the environmental asset, but it only becomes apparent through the process, which, in addition to abstracting it as comparatively valuable, assigns it a price, according to the order of economic valuation.

[0048] This subsidy to the owner is the result of the absorption of the knowledge technology of the process claimed in the present invention, which indicates the environmental quality standard resulting from the potential intervention based on the analysis of secondary data; and facilitates the use of sustainable technology, as it elaborates which are the environmental attributes that, applied in reforestation techniques; alternative irrigation techniques;soil improvement (e.g., organic fertilizers derived from waste), among others, have the ability to respond to territorial, climatic, and environmental demands in order to place the owner in the role of preserving nature and the environmental goods originated as environmental assets, providing efficiency in agro-industrial technologies, for identification, recognition, evaluation, and economic valuation of environmental assets, generating a broad class of contracts based on these scientific criteria and ecosystem scenarios, and implemented through processes in a computer indexing system and clauses of an economic nature.;

[0049] In general terms, the processing milestones are the sets of acts for identification, recognition, evaluation and economic valuation of environmental assets, ecosystem scenario, establishment of scientific criteria, creation of a broad class of contracts, implementation through subprocesses in a computer indexing system, definition of clauses of an economic nature and agreements of a governance nature through commitments voluntarily entered into between parties.

[0050] The process model claimed in the present invention certifies properties that adopt their own exclusive methodology for capturing climate-ecosystem data and attests to the environmental conditions of a given property, quantifying and adding value to ecosystem services.

[0051] The property data, information, and characteristics undergo a metric analysis that results in a certificate registered in a public notary deed and eligible for inclusion in the property registry. This is not a simple assessment of the property's environment; it is an aggregate that influences it, as it transforms the potential of ecological conditions into a combination of factors that enunciate why and into what agroforestry, agropastoral, and agroindustrial technologies transform the most valuable area among others, to the point of formally establishing before assessment bodies the logic, potential element(s) of ecological function, and "octane rating" of climate resilience for the purpose of adapting to the adverse impacts of global climate change—similarly for other environmental issues and the implementation of sustainability mechanisms (eco-efficiency / eco-effectiveness) in the practice of technological solutions.

[0052] The invention consists of a process that catalyzes agroforestry technologies to improve agroindustrial technologies, as it identifies, classifies, quantifies, qualifies environmental assets, adds value to properties with the registration of an asset (which highlights the differential environmental attributes of the analyzed area) as an ecosystem service, environmental assets that respond to the need for maintenance or improvement of the conditions that generated the performance sheltered within the intelligent system.

[0053] The process claimed in the present invention is a method that evaluates and performs valuation of environmental assets through a proprietary integrating, indexing system, registered in an encrypted, immutable, decentralized digital ledger and issuing shareable, authenticated, traceable environmental assets, linked to properties distributed throughout the territory.

[0054] The process claimed in the present invention consists of an autonomous green and sustainability technology, having as a further aspect of innovation the establishment of a technological environmental system through diagnosis, quantitative and qualitative analysis using a mathematical formula and its own methodology regarding the state conditions of the environment, recorded via tokenization and blockchain, generating tradable assets, fixed in an intersected database for the purpose of contributing to compliance with climate standards and other environmental standards through which environmental improvements can occur in favor of the present and progressively, especially of future generations holding the right to ecological heritage in terms of sustainability.

[0055] The process was developed with the ability to receive, absorb, interpret, integrate, index, and, therefore, assign value to environmental assets, thanks to the calculation of returns that environmental content can provide when technologically inserted into normative and governance climate subsystems. Thus, the process claimed in this invention improves the relationship between humans and the environment, pushing for progressive improvements in the environmental quality of the respective properties, land use, and land occupation.

[0056] The data are collected from the hydrological perspective of the area as a source, returning to biodiversity conservation, carbon stocks in the soil and tree stratum, sequestration capacity and various ecosystem flows, such as the right to the landscape, preservationist interests or the need for ecological corridors to support fauna and others.

[0057] Supported by a climate-ecosystem data collection system using a unique and innovative method, this system results in environmental certification for properties located in diverse biomes. In addition to quantifying the ecological heritage of land, the intelligent system assesses properties' respective capacity to add environmental value through a specific metric coupled with initiatives in the area. It measures the degree of environmental commitment in line with current national environmental laws (such as the PSA, Green CPR, CDM, and MDS policies, as mentioned).

[0058] The characteristics of each property are recorded, after processing, in a token and managed by a developed process that can receive, absorb, interpret, integrate, index, and assign value to environmental assets, following notarial registration after being included in a digital ledger encrypted using blockchain technology. Therefore, the process presents unique characteristics in that it is an immutable, decentralized, authenticated, and traceable system, issuing shareable and tradable assets with the purpose of contributing to compliance with climate and other environmental regulations.

[0059] It is not about relating environmental goods and actions in favor of the environment, but rather presenting the concrete situation of the environment from the details of its local and transversal manifestations to the global scope, crossing them from the technologies necessary for transformational change that provide an increase in climate resilience in the agricultural sector – highly impacted by the effects of climate change – and, thanks to the systemic scope of the process claimed in the present invention of green innovation, bring them incremental eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness, while avoiding the postponement of actions in favor of an ecologically balanced environment, overcoming barriers to the adoption of technological improvements. The Process

[0060] Below is a detailed description of the invention process associated with the diagram in Figure 1:

[0061] I) The invention consists of a system for the current application of methodologies for the evaluation and economic valuation of environmental assets.

[0062] II) The methodology is based on the prospecting and engagement of a diverse set of landowners and conservation units (for example, private natural heritage reserves), with a view to evaluating and valuing the land's environmental assets.

[0063] III) In this line, for the reception of entities linked to the land, the invention has the aforementioned system for recording cadastral data, sending electronic documents and geographic binaries (formats.kmle.shp) as one of its components, among others relevant to the study and catalyzing of the ecological functions of the area.

[0064] IV) The environmental integrity of the activities, approaches and results presented here are central to the invention, which motivated the implementation of protocols that aim to seek suitable partners with no history of environmental degradation.

[0065] V) With the completion of the activity described in reference 1 (figure 1), the data and files sent by the landowner proceed to begin the Land Due Diligence, composed of the activities in references 2 and 3 (figure 01), carried out simultaneously.

[0066] VI) Registration data received, in a structured format, as a continuous act, searches and consultations of information are carried out for the purpose of checking not only criminal records, but also those relevant to the invention and its vision of environmental assets, such as IBAMA databases, slave labor and corruption lists from the Transparency Portal, etc.

[0067] VII) Reference activity 3 (Figure 1) refers to the aforementioned "Land Use History Script," developed based on the environmental methodologies of this innovation. The system loads maps of the surveyed rural property in digital format for execution of this set of remote sensing algorithms to monitor the rural property's last 15 years, with special attention to critical factors such as fires and deforestation. Furthermore, maps are overlaid to monitor overlap in sensitive areas such as indigenous reserves, settlements, and conservation units.

[0068] VIII) After reference activities 2 to 4 (Figure 1), if the Land Due Diligence process did not reveal any non-conformities, the process continues. Otherwise, a resolution attempt is made, which, if unsuccessful, leads to the refusal to proceed with the property, and the process is closed.

[0069] IX) After passing the sieve imposed by reference activity 5 (Figure 1), the process reaches a fundamental milestone for the methodology: the mobilization of a real economic asset, a property, as well as its owner, in the land portfolio.

[0070] X) Reference Activity 6 (Figure 1) applies procedures outlined in the environmental methodology, whose main drivers are carbon, water, soil, and biodiversity. There are at least three common requirements: the use of an indexing and quantitative method integrated with remote sensing, the influence of the duality between remote and field monitoring, and the generation of knowledge and research focused on the ecological heritage of the owner, the property, and, consequently, its surroundings.

[0071] XI) The results of reference activity 6 (Figure 1) allow the property to be characterized within the knowledge base accumulated through the constant execution of the methodology and establish the technical-scientific bases for monitoring the land portfolio.

[0072] XII) This land portfolio, referred to as “underlying assets” or “underlying asset portfolio”, is made up of conventional economic assets (real estate, for example, rural properties) that are at the same time part of the ecosystem reality and capacity.

[0073] XIII) As a result, therefore, reference activity 7 (Figure 1) carries out economic assessment and valuation focused on the convergence between positive economic-financial results and positive effects on ecological heritage through the portfolio of adjacent assets.

[0074] XIV) The correlation of value proportions in each scenario for each property, always considering the possibilities for general improvement in the environmental quality of this area, is what broadly defines the concept of an environmental asset. For example, in a rural area, any occurrence of desertification, changes in water regime, loss of soil layers or erosion, or loss of biodiversity can be detected and measured, enabling the identification of actions that can directly combat these processes.

[0075] XV) Each token expresses values ​​for a given area, characterizing it at that moment in time and space: e.g., in the case of rural areas, aspects related to biomass, active carbon stocks and sequestration, above and below ground; water aspects related to water bodies and humidity; soil pedological aspects; and biodiversity aspects in natural areas and areas of agricultural activity. By performing this analysis, the value of the corresponding environmental asset for that area is derived mathematically—the value assessed (calculated) in the previous aspects and reflected in market pricing.

[0076] XVI) The identification of environmental policies assigned to landowners generates the possibility of recognizing rights recognizable as intangible assets based on the ability of the invention process and system to deliver the capacity to activate them for both technical and scientific purposes as well as evaluation, control and monitoring. Examples

[0077] The content within the token is of differentiated value and innovative because it provides a synthesis (of the environmental micro-good, which can be verified at the macro-level) of the ecological functions that permeate the pathways through which economic activities impact the environment and how environmental characteristics are reflected in and condition the continuity of their operations throughout the development and application of technologies. The adoption of technologies presupposes the presence of performance conditions.

[0078] When the process claimed in the present invention substantiates the state of the environment in an interpretation that internalizes specialized knowledge about carbon, water, soil, and biodiversity, it begins to guide the technology itself so that it is effectively sustainable—in other words, enhanced. Thus, if water is scarce (similarly to other examples of findings resulting from the collection and special analysis of data, generating information channeled to the induction of sustainable development processes), the asset viability analysis will provide signaling in this regard. There is a sharp informational process, based on surgically collected data from the territory, which makes the process claimed in the present invention a "laboratory" for improvements for those who hold the token's custody.

[0079] In this process, negotiations are committed to the blockchain, in action-reaction terms, so that contracts / commitments are assumed and, organically and collaboratively, imply transformations. Example: implementation of adaptation measures in areas with increased drought vulnerability due to rising global temperatures, installing successive irrigation barriers, regenerating and revitalizing soil conditions, and also driving environmental improvements throughout the duration of the analyses, to models of participation in the environmental returns provided by the increase in environmental resources (intensification of ecosystem services), e.g., use of carbon crediting mechanisms within established markets, also in the provision of environmental services and the definition of governance plans that consider sustainable technology to be the selection and widespread use of technologies focused on environmental issues—green technologies, in this case, in the areas of beneficiation by the process claimed in the present invention, the technology(ies) that the technology of the present invention demonstrates to be necessary. The application in agribusiness results from the absorption of the benefits exemplified within its cycle, whose production model is now signaled as sustainable thanks to the process claimed in the present invention.

[0080] Furthermore, the process described here works with a volume of content, which, in turn, undergoes analytical feedback. Thus, innovation also lies in the materiality exuded by the tokens. A token that has abstracted the environmental condition in terms of water may find in another in terms of biodiversity a two-way construction, in which it can be concluded how much the greater (or lesser) qualitative condition of the water resource provided a healthier (or lesser) environment, to the point that certain species survive better in one location than in another, and so on, on one farm than in another; in one region of the country than in another; in one biome than in another—notwithstanding the fact that some degrees Celsius have increased on average and decreased in situ, causing extreme events.

[0081] This degree of in-depth knowledge is systemically absorbed in the process claimed in the present invention and catalyzed for multiple sustainability purposes (that is, balancing the ecological, economic and social aspects) by making decisions for strengthened investments in certain concrete actions to the detriment of others and in certain older technologies to other new ones based on possible results in favor of the environment being and remaining ecologically balanced.

[0082] A token refers to a certain environmental condition, collected in a predetermined period of time, while subsequent tokens compose the evolution of the quality level of the environment under evaluation and, comparatively, to subsequent times and to different locations but linked from the point of view of the performance of ecological functions.

[0083] The Index is presented within the token, which, when opened, provides access to an interpretative and momentary 'snapshot' of the environmental micro-assets that make up the universality of the ecologically balanced environment. Thus, the information contained in the token is conveyed multidimensionally: facet 1 soil, facet 2 water, facet 3 soil carbon, facet 4 carbon in the tree layer, facet 5 biodiversity, and facet 6 other ecosystem flows.

[0084] The system has the capacity to improve climate change management techniques (prevention and adaptation to its adverse effects) as an adaptation measure in support of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

[0085] It should be noted that other environmental issues, besides climate change, are on the radar of the process claimed in the present invention. For example, the ability to intersect the subsystems of the technical fields related to the implementation processes of other environmental agreements: combating desertification, as advocated by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and water resource protection policies, supported in Brazil by Law No. 9433 of January 8, 1997, among others.The token makes environmental data explicit; the information processed is related to the eco-efficiency of the technology in use and, whenever possible, its eco-effectiveness compared to alternative technologies; as well as tangible and publicly known sustainability through the issuance of successive potential systemic assets.

[0086] The scenarios for implementing public policies related to climate change and other associated issues, in the process claimed in the present invention, can now be individually diagnosed and described in a technically appropriate and precise manner, in comparison to what public databases in general are capable of achieving. While these can only reach the aggregate level, the method penetrates the most local scope possible, directly into the environment of the land subject to the application of green innovation technology, including taking the landowner as a partner in determining environmental value. Broadly speaking, the process claimed in the present invention, applied to ecosystems, assesses the environment (knowledge about environmental micro-assets – FRANGETTO, 2004; 2006; 2008) and inserts the contribution scores to environmental quality according to the parameters of the best environmental technology.

[0087] The process claimed in the present invention enables data cross-referencing as content formed in previous uses is related to that which will emerge over time, in the same space or biome, characterizing the ecosystem's evolution. At different times, a projection of environmental assets is made, property by property, including cultivation, conservation, or preservation areas; water production; soil neutrality to land degradation; and the diverse species available in the ecosystem—consolidating them methodologically based on the technical characteristics presented.

[0088] In this regard, the process claimed in this green innovation invention can address the lack of safety in operations involving environmental assets because it reaches previously inaccessible property territory. As the landowner partners authorize entry into their areas, and the techniques include automation, instrumentation, and qualitative and quantitative framing of environmental advancements from other technological process(es), the system discovers the ideal standard—the most effective technology capable of being efficiently applied according to the circumstances of the specific case—in a situation of analytical intersection between technology(ies) applied in distinct ecosystems and the demands for continuous improvement of natural conditions with a view to maximizing preservation.All of this is done in anticipation of any delay or inertia in effectively acting for the environment and adaptability to inevitable ecosystem changes (degradation resulting from human needs to use and consume environmental goods) and unequivocal ones (climate change, resulting from atmospheric emissions).

[0089] In this context, cross-referencing disaggregated data makes it possible, for example, to identify changes in the state of environmental micro-assets in areas where extreme weather events (temperature rise, as the most representative case) have led to the intensification of drought, increasing vulnerability to desertification (such as the intensification of drought). Once situations are recognized as requiring adaptation measures to this adverse effect of climate change, the process claimed in the present invention packages these findings in a traceable device to ensure these findings are not lost.

[0090] Tokens of environmental assets, systemic and successive, permeate the logic of the "integrated flow of environmental information (fiia)" (FRANGETTO, Right to environmental information as a stimulus to Sustainable Development, São Paulo: PUC / SP, 2004) so ​​that, combined, they are grouped together under the perspective of, once the environmental value is determined in the state in which the environment is, visualizing the spaces for improvements and for increasing the applied technologies, making them as precise as possible for progressive sustainable technological development.

[0091] It's not just about recording knowledge about the state of the environment and packaging it via a blockchain token device; the process goes further: it encompasses the stage in which an interested party holding the token voluntarily wishes to go through the eligibility process for use of environmental policy implementation instruments. At this stage, for example, certification via the process claimed in this invention provides support so that, once in possession of the environmental asset, proponents of other projects are prepared to qualify for mechanisms whose eligibility requirements are evidenced by the circumstances outlined in the tokens. Examples of other accreditation processes include the steps to comply with the CDM (Kyoto Protocol); MDS (Paris Agreement); National Policy on Climate Change (PNMC), cf. art. 5 of Law No. 12.187 / 2009; PSA, cf. Law No. 14.119 of January 13, 2021; Green CPR, cf. Law No. 13.986 of April 7, 2020, regulated by Decree No. 10,828 of October 1, 2021; and many others that imply following the steps of the roadmap pre-established by international, national and subnational standards.

[0092] To this end, by cross-checking instructions against other accreditations, the process claimed in the present invention aggregates complementary metrics that support the assessment, for a verification / certification model that assimilates and monitors the level of compliance with the requirements determined in those external processes. Thus, an asset issued within the scope of the process claimed in the present invention can be implemented in multiple other related modalities, in response to common environmental concerns. For example, "climate change," which can be prevented through knowledge technology that precedes the use of physical means of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, precisely because it enables non-emitting behavior.

[0093] Along these lines, the token's content reveals a fundamental obligation to not pollute, nor to cause any threat or harm from climate change. The process claimed in the present invention, therefore, functions as a system that determines the value of the micro-environmental asset being investigated (enabling the attribution of a logical, quantified, and qualified value to what already has value in itself—i.e., the environment as a whole, which is closest to the macro-environmental asset) and opens up subsystems that enable new procedural technological solutions. The token can demonstrate that on the analyzed land, an activity was carried out that achieved a certain amount, expressed in tons of GHG emissions reduction, a traceable fact that could be used in the design of a prospective CDM / SDM project.

[0094] The preferred embodiment of the invention is the agroindustry taking advantage of the positive impacts of all stages of the process, from access to macro information relating to the environment of assessed and verified areas, through custody of systemic environmental assets in a volume of interest corresponding to interdependent environmental factors, to opting for the acceleration of emission reduction and climate adaptation measures by internalizing them in technologies in use or being adopted.

[0095] The system is not environmental information itself, but rather an access mechanism (to various potential recognitions of environmental values ​​verified in the specific environment and with a view to improvements to prevent threats and damage to the environment).

Claims

TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, characterized by (A) environmental attribute extracted from the land, (B) generation of environmental content and (C) producing sustainability effects in agriculture and agroindustry, (D) providing knowledge subsidies about the state and perspective projection of the environment for green innovation, (E) accelerating the results of the use of sustainable agricultural technological options, (F) implementing a system of registration and certification of environmental initiatives in systemic and integrated flows of environmental and social technical information. TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that “A” carries out land due diligence through non-exhaustive investigation of analysis of official public databases of government institutions, added to the inference by adequacy to the expected structure of the areas in time and space, in accordance with the legal framework of the location of the area (e.g.Environmental laws, land laws, related laws), provide a balance of carbon, water, soil, biodiversity, obtained in a given time and space, characteristic of methodologies and processes already established by relevant international bodies, but which are specified for the condition of the portfolio of areas and transversally absorb the environmental suitability of the analyzed ecosystem and reveal the wealth of ecological heritage, “B” estimate the potential for emission of systemic assets and “C” guide the user of environmental assets in the adoption of sustainable mechanisms and technologies. TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that “A” determines the value of the environmental asset by indexing it in a database in a system that compares different scientific theses and consensuses on the nature of obtaining information, using the delimitation of concepts, axioms, equations and / or formulas, which result in a characteristic numerical value for a given condition in space and time and “B” assimilates data through constant monitoring over time of a constant, accessible space surrounding the portfolio of areas and recognizes and prices the wealth of the environmental asset in relation to the metric of intensification of the ecological environmental function as an ecosystem service and inserts detailed information in a tokenizable digital ledger. TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that “D” carries out climate adaptation measures and other green innovation accreditations and “E” assists landowners dedicated to agroforestry, agricultural, agro-industrial and preservation economic activities to provide an improvement in the level of environmental quality and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of green technologies within the sector and associated segments. TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that "E" infers the size of the contribution of positive environmental actions to the achievement of the ultimate objective of treaties and laws and encourages society, especially those engaged in agricultural activities, to persevere in an ecologically balanced environment, to verify degrees of observance of the laws of nature, governance and public policies, in a compliance system and "F" offers instrumentation of the life cycle of investment in environmentally friendly operations, from the previous stage to the subsequent application(s) of technology (expected to be sustainable) in the agricultural segments, to serve as a tool in favor of spontaneous certification with a view to facilitating the path to be taken by those interested in using market and non-market mechanisms that encourage the implementation of actions, projects,programs and policies on climate, water resources, biodiversity and combating desertification.,

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