Petrobas and Shell Brazil to launch the "Carbon Countdown", a carbon stock inventory at country level

Shell Brazil and Petrobas launched the "Carbon Countdown", a carbon stock inventory project to measure carbon stocks above and below ground across all of Brazil's biomes, on 12/12/2025. They collaborate with the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON/USP), launched in 2023, which will act as project's executor, alongside other research and academic Brasilian centers.

"The survey will cover 6.500 demarcated areas, with more than 250.000 soil samples and an even greater number of vegetation samples and another 400.000 samples of complementary attributes, characterizing the largest inventory of the type ever carried out in Brazil. The project implements a national research network, with regional poles in the six Brazilian biomes: Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, and Pampa. This set up ensures unified methodologies, technical protocols for Safety, Environment and Health, ethical standards, and data consistency", highlight the companies in their announcement.

This 5-year R&D project requires an estimated $18.5 M of investments, funded through…