The Ecovalor Project proposes new opportunities for the rational use of resources, incorporating multiple environmental considerations and their economic implications in the management of landscapes, forests, and productive sectors in Cuba. The capture of carbon dioxide is one of the environmental services that it promotes in the province of Las Tunas.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The clean development mechanisms are those investments with efficient energy production technologies that allow the companies that put them into practice to obtain emission rights, as explained to Tiempo21 the Master of Science Amado Luis Palma Torres, provincial coordinator.

"The project comes to teach us how to value goods and services from an economic perspective of ecosystems, a renewing idea in Cuban environmental policy. It is to change our gaze towards forests and not see them only as wood, but also appreciate other services, which may be the emission of oxygen and the absorption of carbon.”

He added that, in our country, this service is not accounted for, and given the call to substitute imports and export national products, its capture can become a way of earning currency.

La Isleta-Bahías de Nuevas Grandes protected area is inserted in Ecovalor. The coordinator of the project in Manatí, Arsenio Cruz Rodríguez, said that in the selected plots the height of the trees, the thickness of the trunks, and the bark were measured to study the evolution of these plants, and to know the retention of carbon in our forests and, thus, improve the atmosphere.