Training Session: Prioritizing and Developing Nationally Appropriate

Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in Agriculture

Janie Rioux and Armine AvagyanFood and Agriculture Organization

Asia LEDS Partnership: Mobilizing Investment for low-emission development in Asia’s agricultural sectorOctober 28-20, 2015, Ho Chi Ming City, Vietnam

Training Objectives

1. Prioritize mitigation actions for NAMAs in different sub-sectors of agriculture in Asia

2. Evaluate the barriers to NAMAs implementation and incentives for transformational change

3. Identify indicators for monitoring GHG and non GHG benefits of NAMAs

Training Structure

Overview presentation Case-study Philippines: MRV and financing scheme of NAMA

for improved rice irrigation with the use of AWDSpeakers: Eng. Sibayan and Mr. Vladislav, PhilRice

WG1: Identify NAMA interventions and incentives in crop production and processing

WG2: MRV for GHG and non GHG benefits for NAMAs in crop production and processing

Discussion on further application and NAMA learning support

GHG emissions from agriculture in Asia

Data source: FAOSTAT

The largest emitters in agriculture in Asia

Data source: FAOSTAT

• Emissions from energy use in agriculture added another 408 million tonnes CO2 eq/year

Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)

In line with national

development strategies

High potential for GHG

emissions reduction

Potential totransform the

system

Providedevelopmentco-benefits

NAMAs

NAMAs co-benefits

• increased farmers’ and fisherfolks’ household income level• improved energy security• number of jobs created in agriculture

Economic benefits

• enhanced food security• decreased time for fuelwood collection • improved indoor air quality

Social benefits

• improved local air quality• improved water quality• enhanced biodiversityEnvironmental benefits

• improved water availability• reduced soil erosion• reduced deforestation and forest degradation.

Climate resilience

Steps of NAMAs development

Identifyoptions

Prioritizeoptions

Identify and engage

stakeholders

Design NAMA (and MRV)Implement

Monitoring, Reporting and

Verification

Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)

Measurement/monitoring activities and collecting data on GHG fluxes and on non-GHG impacts, as well as on financial flows and overall implementation progress.

Reporting in a transparent manner and sharing information on the NAMA’s impacts on GHG fluxes and non-GHG, its support for national development, and its financial status by providing background data, data sources and methodologies applied for data quantification.

Verifying the completeness, consistency and reliability of the reported information through an independent process.

The objective of MRV is to assess the progress of a NAMA towards its mitigationand national development goals.

FAOSTAT providing country level data on GHG emissions and projections

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FAOSTAT, FRA & geo-referenced data

+IPCC 2006 Guidelines

http://faostat3.fao.org

FAOSTAT Emissions DatabaseDOMAIN CATEGORY GAS ACTIVITY

DATA

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Enteric Fermentation CH4 FAOSTAT

Manure Management CH4, N2O

FAOSTAT

Rice Cultivation CH4 FAOSTAT

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Synthetic Fertilizers N2O FAOSTAT

Manure applied to soils N2O FAOSTAT

Manure left on pasture N2O FAOSTAT

Crop residues N2O FAOSTAT

Cultivated organicsoils N2O

HWSD, GLC2000,

GLW

Burning - Savanna CH4, N2O

GFED4, CZ, GEZ

Burning – Crop residues

CH4, N2O

FAOSTAT

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Cropland CO2HWSD,

GLC2000

Grassland CO2

HWSD, GLC2000,

GLW

Burning BiomassCH4, N2O, CO2

GFED4,HWSD,

CZ, GEZ

HWSD – FAO-IIASA-ISRIC Harmonized World Soil DatabaseGLC2000 – EU-JRC Global Land Cover 2000GLW – FAO Gridded Livestock of the WorldGFED4 – Global Fire Emissions Database v.4CZ – JRC Climate ZoneGEZ – FAO Global Ecological ZonesFRA – FAO Forest Resources Assessment

Examples from Viet Nam

GHG emissions from agriculture Enteric fermentation emissions by animal

Examples from Viet Nam

GHG emissions projections from rice cultivation

GHG emissions projections from enteric fermentation

FAOSTAT Emissions Database on YouTube

English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcxEpL7DnWA

The Manual provides member countries with a guidance to identify, build and access a minimum set of data to complete a National GHG Inventory for agriculture and land use, following the default Tier 1 method of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for national Inventories

Manual to address data requirements for developing countries

www.fao.org/3/a-i4260e.pdf

E-learning Course Building a national greenhouse gas inventory for Agriculture,

Forestry and Other Land Use

• Guide the user through the preparation of a tier 1 national GHG inventory for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land use (AFOLU) sector following 2006 IPCC Guidelines.

• Provide a general introduction to the national GHG inventory (NGHGI) and on its context in the UNFCCC reporting framework.

• Introduce some FAO products that could support countries to improve the NGHGI.

NAMA learning tool for agriculture and land use sectors

Module 1Climate change and

agriculture

Module 2Background on NAMAs

Module 3Step by Step NAMA

Development

Module 4Monitoring, reporting and

verification (MRV)

Module 5NAMA financing

Structure of the online toolFAO NAMA tool for agriculture and land use aims to help agriculture sector actors get started with NAMA identification and planning.

Format •Web-based detailed guidance available at: http://bit.ly/fao-nama-tool

Questions

Is there NAMAs in agriculture being developed in your country?

What are the main crop production and processing sectors (commodities)?

Exercise 1: Prioritization of mitigation options

Task: For one of the crop production and processing sectors (e.g. rice cultivation, palm oil production, coffee cultivation-or as selected by the working groups) identify and prioritize mitigation interventions.( For GHG reduction and economic profitability potential, evaluate from 1-5, 1= low, 5= high)

Crop production

and processing

sector

GHG reduction potential

Economic profitability

Co-benefits: food security,

adaptation, etc.

Barriers and incentives for

scaling up

Exercise 2: Monitoring plan

Actions Monitoring Gaps in data Challenges

Indicators Frequency

Responsible

Task: For each of the NAMA ideas prepare a draft MRV plan with the indicators, methods, frequency and responsible entities for the monitoring plan. Also indicate the frequency and responsible entities for reporting and verification. Identify also gaps in data, and institutional challenges.