Act!on Agriculture: Wednesday 12 December The final day of the Act!on Agriculture event brought together scientists, agriculture practitioners, and public and private sector stakeholders to continue discussions on ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agriculture sector, while ensuring co-benefits. Sessions focused on ways of implementing agroecology, building capacity in measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), and raising the ambition of agriculture in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).The session on capacity building in agricultural MRV demonstrated the importance of improved GHG emission MRV techniques in enabling countries to develop national GHG inventories, and thus improve transparency in emission reporting. The final session on raising the ambition of agriculture in NDCs drew from the discussions of the previous days to shed light on how countries can meet their Paris Agreement commitments through emission reductions in agriculture. Setting the pace for this session, Sigrid Kaag, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, the Netherlands, emphasized the importance of public-private partnerships to support smallholder farmers to apply appropriate technologies to increase yields, while reducing emissions.The three-day event was closed by Michael Creed, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland, who said that, while reducing agricultural GHG emissions is challenging, the sector has a critical role to play in combating hunger and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Creed closed the meeting at 6:01 pm.

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Building Capability in Agricultural Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)

 

Hayden Montgomery, Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

 

Hugh Martineau, Ricardo Energy & Environment

 

Panelists during the event

 

A participant reads the event brochure

Participants listen to the discussion

Raising the Ambition of Agriculture in NDCs: 2020 and Beyond

 

Manish Bapna, World Resources Institute

 

Ben O’Brien, Beef + Lamb New Zealand

 

John Carnegie, BusinessNZ

 

A participant takes a photo of the slide presentation

 

Kristen Ann Hite, Oxfam International, moderated this session

 

Martien Van Nieuwkoop, World Bank

 

Stanley Kimaren Riamit, Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners (ILEPA)

 

A participant poses a question

 

Rachel Dunn, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand

 

A participant listens to the presentations

 

Ronny Jumeau, Permanent Representative of Seychelles to the United Nations

 

Participants at the Pacific and Koronovia Pavillion