African Development Bank

Register to the third webinar of Teagasc’s new Research Insights webinar series, “How does soil organic carbon cycling work?”. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 9.30-10.30 am Dublin time.

The annual GRA Council Meeting will take place from 24-25 March 2021 online. Australia, as the incoming GRA Chair will host the Council meeting in close collaboration with the current GRA Chair, Indonesia.

More information will follow shortly.

Register here for the final webinar of the Progressing Partnerships Webinar Series 2020!

Date: Wednesday 23rd September 2020 (9 – 10am UTC)

This webinar will present an example of practical methods for compiling livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 2 approach and showcase good practices from the development of a Tier 2 GHG emissions inventory for the dairy sector in Kenya. With guest speakers, Andreas Wilkes (UNIQUE Forestry and Land Use), Benjamin Kibor and Robin Mbae (Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Kenya).

If you missed out on the first two webinars, click the below links:

Setting the scene for impact – Webinar 1

Creating impact through collaboration – Webinar 2

The theme for this webinar is “Achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions in U.S. Agriculture through Soil Health”. Presentations will be given by the Soil Health Institute, Cargill, and Walmart Foundation that describe the overall strategy and work being conducted to address gaps in adoption that will allow the U.S. agricultural sector to achieve net zero C emissions by 2040. The audience (food & beverage companies, policymakers, conservationists, and others) will then engage in a 20-minute discussion period with all speakers.

The Soil Health Institute is a non-profit with a mission to safeguard and enhance the vitality and productivity of soils through scientific research and advancement.

The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) is pleased to announce Bangladesh as our newest member country. Bangladesh has become the 63rd member of the GRA.

The GRA is looking forward to working with Bangladesh to improve sustainable farming practices and to produce more food while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The 63 member countries now participating in the activities of the Global Research Alliance are: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, eSwatini, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

On 2 September 2020, the GRA and CCAFS successfully hosted the fourth webinar of the 2020 CLIFF-GRADS Science Collaboration Series.

This week’s session on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories featured guest speaker Dr. Olia Glade, Director of Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) Systems at The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI). This session provides context for researchers working in the fields of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on how to ensure research findings are relevant and implementable in a National GHG Inventory system.

Some topics we covered in the discussion were improvements to agriculture GHG inventories, addressing uncertainties, time series consistency and international reporting requirements. Please listen to the recording for more!

To register for upcoming webinars, please click here. Sessions intended for the students are restricted to CLIFF-GRADS Alumni.

Dr. Olia Glade is the Director for MRV Systems, bringing the expertise in natural science, education, greenhouse gas reporting and review under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol, and designing GHG data management systems. Previous to GHGMI, Olia was New Zealand’s GHG inventory focal point at the UNFCCC and led New Zealand’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Programme.