OLOT MEATS OBTAINS THE CLIMATE CREDITS CERTIFICATE
For having met the objectives set in its pioneering initiative to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The work was carried out by the Forestry Cooperative, with the support of the Forestry Consortium of Catalonia, in several forests in the Vall de Bianya.
The Forest Property Centre (CPF), attached to the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat de Catalunya, has just delivered to Olot Meats, S.A. the certificate of acquisition of Climate Credits, once the work of the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Project (PROMACC) in Sant Miquel del Mont (la Vall de Bianya) has been completed. For these works, carried out in two phases by the Catalan Forestry Cooperative, with the support of the Catalan Forestry Consortium, over the last two years, Olot Meats has obtained a total of 30 Climate Credits, one for each hectare of resilient landscape intervened. The certificate certifies that the action promoted and financed by Olot Meats has been adapted to the objectives initially planned, and that it has contributed to the fixation of more than 3,000 tons of CO₂, the obtaining of more than 50,000 m3 of blue water and the improvement of the capacity to host biodiversity by 4%.
All the actions have been carried out in four private estates of La Vall de Bianya, in three pedunculate oak forests, a beech forest and a holm oak forest. This work has allowed – through low and improvement thinnings – to improve the state of the forests in order to obtain more resilient masses to climate change. However, the key elements for the conservation and improvement of biodiversity have been respected.
More than two years ago, the Generalitat de Catalunya launched the Climate Credit System to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and the adaptation of forests to environmental changes. It did so by making companies and institutions jointly responsible for the implementation of this management, based on local participation and the generation of climate credits that have a positive impact on three ecosystem services: carbon, water and biodiversity.
Olot Meats has become the first Catalan company, and a pioneer in the Spanish meat sector, to take the initiative to carry out this work.
