[UNEP] Consultant on Carbon Credit Pathways for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Curitiba
Ente: UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
Scadenza: 2026-09-05
Paese: INTL
Descrizione
Consultant on Carbon Credit Pathways for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Curitiba UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme Open positions at UNEP Nairobi ( Kenya ) Consultant Environment Show advice for this position Application deadline in 6 days : Friday 4 Sep 2026 at 03:59 UTC Open application form Contract This is a Consultancy contract. More about Consultancy contracts . Are you moving soon to Geneva, Switzerland? Super Logeur Details Result of Service Evidence is developed on carbon stocks and carbon sequestration potential for different UPA typologies and agroecological practices, demonstrating their climate mitigation benefits compared with business-as-usual scenarios. 2. Projects for generating carbon credits from UPA through composting, rock dust application (enhanced rock weathering), biochar, and agroforestry systems are identified, assessed, and communicated to the Municipality of Curitiba, including their co-benefits for social, human, produced and natural capitals. 3. Public policies and decision-making processes in the Municipality of Curitiba are informed by the evidence generated, supporting the development of enabling conditions for voluntary environmental asset markets and more resilient urban food systems at the municipal level. Work Location Home Based Expected duration 6 months Duties and Responsibilities Organizational Setting: The United Nations Environment Programme is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. UNEP Ecosystems Division works with international and national partners, providing technical assistance and capacity development for the implementation of environmental policy, and strengthening the environmental management capacity of developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources are the basis of agriculture. The agricultural sector provides important benefits such as food for humans and animals, fiber for industrial and artisanal production, materials for fuel, employment, and cultural cohesion. However, it is the main driver of the degradation of ecosystems, the loss of biodiversity, health externalities, and greenhouse gas emissions, among others. Many of these impacts, both positive and negative, are economically invisible and are not included in public and private decision-making. The Economics of Nature Unit (TEN) within the Ecosystems Division hosts the TEEBAgriFood initiative which is designed to demonstrate that the economic environment in which agricultural producers operate is subject to negative and positive externalities and that they depend on well-functioning ecosystems. The initiative seeks to demonstrate that the entire agricultural value chain (production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste) not only has an impact on the environment but also on socio-economic well-being, particularly of small producers, on public health and food security. UNEP has received funding from DG INTPA on TEEBAgriFood implementation in Brazil. The overall objective of the DG-INPTA project is to enhance agrobiodiversity governance and agroecological practices for sustainable agri-food systems by making the economic case for such approaches through the implementation of the TEEBAgriFood framework. Building on UNEP’s previous work on UPA, the project´s specific objective in Brazil is to inform multi-level decision-making processes by applying the TEEBAgriFood framework to make the economic case for scaling of agrobiodiversity-based, agroecological in urban and peri-urban spaces. To achieve this objective, this project will generate valuable data and practical tools to make visible multiple values, benefits and trade-offs of biodiverse UPA—particularly the ecosystem services provision—aiming to inform decision-making on how cities and their residents can gain from more diverse, localized, agroecological, and climate-resilient food systems. By shaping outputs according to policy needs, the project aims to contribute to strengthening on the ground implementation of agroecological and biodiverse UPA and support the establishment of an enabling institutional and governance framework at national and subnational level. An expected outcome of the project is that national and subnational authorities allocate additional land and resources to UPA upscaling, informed by TEEBAgriFood assessments of ecosystem services, cost–benefit performance, and distributional effects. In addition, a second outcome is that the public sector adopts specific legislat
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