Brazilian livestock production enters 2025 facing a new global landscape shaped by climate pressure, market demands, and technological advances. This material explores how topics such as emissions reduction, animal welfare, artificial intelligence, biodiversity, traceability, and carbon markets are redefining competitiveness and sustainability in the livestock sector.

Are carbon markets maturing or simply changing their narrative? Based on recent discussions around offsets, insetting, and Scope 3, this article explores why dairy production will increasingly depend on reliable data, traceability, and real emission reductions before talking about carbon credits.

Sustainability in dairy farming does not depend only on isolated good practices, but on coordination among farmers, technicians, processors, markets and public policies. When each link in the chain understands its role, data stops being fragmented records and becomes a foundation for better decisions, value creation and stronger competitiveness across the dairy sector.

A ESGpec foi selecionada como Impact Startup no Web Summit Rio 2026, integrando um grupo global de empresas que utilizam tecnologia para enfrentar desafios ligados ao clima, à produção de alimentos e à sustentabilidade.

ESGpec has been selected for the Tríade Women in Tech program, an initiative by Sebrae Startups aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs in the technology sector. The program brings together startups from across Minas Gerais, connecting businesses that combine technology, scalability and impact potential.

Sustainability in dairy production is no longer just an environmental agenda. It is now directly linked to economic stability, food security, and supply chain resilience. In this context, ESG evolves from a reporting metric into a strategic framework, requiring reliable data, decision-making capacity, and a stronger role for farmers.

Scope 3 is reshaping climate governance in the dairy supply chain by incorporating farm-level emissions into corporate inventories. Beyond a technical concept, it represents a strategic shift that connects primary production to risk, financing, and market access, requiring structured data and continuous management.

Heloise Duarte, cofounder of ESGpec, was a finalist at the Women in Action 2026 Award by Insper in the Technological Innovation category. The recognition highlights climate-tech solutions for ESG measurement and management in dairy supply chains.

In this article, Heloise Duarte explores how the evolution of agriculture, from management to sustainability, is driven by data. Beyond carbon footprint calculation, the real challenge lies in building a solid data foundation that enables decision-making, productivity gains, and value creation across the entire dairy supply chain.

Sustainability in dairy farming depends on building green business ecosystems, where producers, industries, and markets operate in an integrated way. Beyond adopting best practices, the key challenge is measuring, standardizing, and connecting data. In this context, solutions like ESGpec enable the transformation of farm data into strategic indicators, supporting decision-making, market access, and real decarbonization strategies.

The climate agenda has entered a new phase. Beyond targets, the focus is now on execution and the ability to demonstrate results. With COP30 and Brazil’s new Climate Plan, sustainability directly impacts production systems. In dairy farming, measuring, monitoring, and proving performance is no longer a differentiator, but a requirement to remain competitive.

The Despertar Regenerativo initiative launches a new phase with MilkPoint, providing dairy farmers with free digital tools to measure carbon footprint, animal welfare indicators, and ESG performance.

Animal welfare has moved from a peripheral issue to a core pillar of dairy sustainability. Discover how international frameworks, field data, and digital tools support scalable, practical, and climate-resilient dairy systems.

With a historic 16.7% drop in national emissions, Brazilian agriculture gains climate relevance. Discover how measuring dairy carbon footprint, reducing methane, and improving ESG performance can transform livestock production.

ESGpec was highlighted in Agro e Prosa’s article on innovation in Brazilian agribusiness within the CasaleTech program, an initiative by Casale in partnership with IAM. The report emphasizes the role of agtechs in environmental data standardization, carbon footprint calculation, animal welfare monitoring and ESG performance management in agricultural production.

ESGpec was selected among 701 proposals in Compete Minas, a FAPEMIG call that will allocate BRL 50 million to innovation projects. The approval recognizes the technical robustness and strategic potential of the solution developed for the agribusiness sector

Regenerative livestock represents a deep shift in mindset within agriculture. Rather than simply reducing environmental impact, it seeks to restore ecosystems, relationships and territories by integrating animal welfare, biodiversity, soil health and human well-being. In a world shaped by climate pressure and changing consumer expectations, regeneration is no longer a trend — it is a strategic pathway for farms, countries and the planet.

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In this edition, inspired by the International Year of the Woman Farmer, the article explores why ESG must go beyond carbon metrics to foster real resilience in productive systems.

ESGpec has been selected to be included in an international publication dedicated to concrete and scalable solutions for transforming food systems , in the context of the global climate agenda associated with COP30.