CCAC: Agriculture Initiative
General
Name of initiative | CCAC: Agriculture Initiative |
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LPAA initiative | No |
NAZCA Initiative | No |
Website address | http://www.ccacoalition.org/en/initiatives/agriculture |
Related initiatives | |
Starting year | 2015 |
End year | |
Secretariat | Catalina Etcheverry, Agriculture & Bricks Initiative Coordinator, UNEP Paris, 1 rue Miollis, Building VII , 75 015 Paris , France, Phone: +33 1 44 37 14 73; e-mail: Catalina.Etcheverry@un.org |
Organisational structure | Is organised in 4 components:
Enteric fermentation, Paddy rice production, Livestock and manure management, Open burning of agricultural crops. |
Geographical coverage | Global |
Name of lead organisation | CCAC |
Type of lead organisation | International organisation |
Location/Nationality of lead organisation | France |
Description
Description | The Agriculture Initiative focuses its activities on the four largest emission sources in the sector:
Enteric fermentation: Methane expelled from livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, etc., as natural part of the digestive process -- responsible for close to 30% of global anthropogenic methane emissions; Paddy rice production: Methane emissions from the anaerobic decay of organic material in continuously flooded rice paddies -- responsible for 10% of global anthropogenic methane emissions; Livestock and manure management: Methane emissions from the storage of (especially liquid) manure -- responsible for 4% of global anthropogenic methane emissions; and 40% black carbon emissions from the burning of dung as heating and cooking fuel Open burning of agricultural crops: The single largest source of black carbon emissions globally -- responsible for over a third of all emissions, with agricultural fires comprising 10-20% of all open fires. |
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Objectives | The Coalition’s Agriculture Initiative works to advance methane and black carbon abatement and recovery practices within the sector. In addition to helping reduce the rate of near-term warming, these practices can provide immediate co-benefits for public health, food security and economic development, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and low-emissions agricultural development. |
Activities | |
One or two success stories achieved |
Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Political dialogue, Capacity building, Technical dialogue |
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Activity of initiative | Knowledge dissemination and exchange, Training and education, Policy planning and recommendations |
Indicators | |
Goals | 5-year milestones:
Manure management practice changes identified for Argentina, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Vietnam, and regionally in Central America; 3 countries - Vietnam, Bangladesh, Colombia - participate in suitability assessments for alternate wetting and drying rice production: Alternatives to open agricultural burning projects started in India and Peru; 13 countries developed baseline and mitigation assessments for enteric fermentation in the dairy and livestock sector using the Global Livestock and Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM); Strategic Support Groups created in the Andes and Himalaya countries to help governments and local farmers find alternatives to open burning; Tools developed for Vietnam to measure, report, and verify greenhouse gas emissions from paddy rice, and support NDC implementation in the rice sector. |
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How are you tracking progress of your initiative | |
Available reporting | http://ccacoalition.org/en/resources/agriculture-initiative-progress-report-2016-2017 |
Participants
Participants | Number | Names | ||||
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Members | 33 | |||||
Companies | 0 | |||||
Business organisations | 0 | |||||
Research and educational organisations | 2 | Livestock and manure management: Wageningen University - Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (Netherlands).
Open agricultural burning: Michigan Technological University (USA) | ||||
Non-governmental organisations | 0 | |||||
National states | 23 | Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, EU, France, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, India, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Togo, Uruguay, USA, Vietnam, Zimbabwe. | ||||
Governmental actors | 0 | |||||
Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||||
City / municipal actors | 0 | |||||
Intergovernmental organisations | 8 | Enteric fermentations: FAO (France), Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (Austria); FAO (Italy), International Livestock Research Institute - ILRI (Kenya), Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center - CATIE (Costa Rica), Paddy rice production: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change (Global), International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT (USA), Punjab Agricultural Management & Extension Training Institute (India), CARE (Peru) | ||||
Financial Institutions | 0 | |||||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||
Other members | 0 | |||||
Supporting partners | 0 | |||||
Number of members in the years |
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Have only national states as participators | No |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators