The GRA Feed Additives Flagship Project is holding a webinar in 2025. Stay tuned for updates!

Flagship Goal: To accelerate the development and use of feed additives to reduce global enteric methane emissions from livestock.

COP29 has come to a close, and as always, it was a huge undertaking for those involved. For some it was successful, while others felt it fell short of achieving anything substantial. We have summarised some of the key takeaways from COP29, as well as provided some links to other articles.

For the Post COP Update, click HERE.

• Prospective leaders and postdocs with climate expertise
• Non-European developing and transition countries
• 12–24-month research project in Germany
• Application deadline: 1 February 2025

Fellowship for prospective leaders working practically and postdocs

Are you working academically or practically in climate protection or climate-relevant resource conservation in your country of origin – a non-European developing or transition country (see list of countries)? Then we invite you to apply for an International Climate Protection Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

The fellowship facilitates the mutual exchange of knowledge, methods and techniques with hosts in Germany.

For more information, click HERE.

Abstract submission deadline: January 12, 2025

Dates for the conference are October 5-9, 2025.

At the 9TH GGAA, you’ll have the chance to delve into cutting-edge research, connect with experts and participate in lively discussions covering GHG mitigation, measurement techniques, advanced modelling, and on-farm practices. You’ll get to discover insights into policies addressing agricultural impacts on GHGs and stay updated on the latest scientific developments. There will also be field visits you can join to national parks, farms, and rangeland sites, including ILRI’s Kapiti Conservancy and Research Station on the outskirts of Nairobi.

For more information see here

The August 2024 issue of Who’s Counting, the Inventories and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Network Newsletter is now available to view HERE.

Who’s Counting summarises scientific progress, opportunities, resources and events related to national agriculture inventory development, national agriculture climate targets, and international inventory capability-building activities.

We encourage you to directly submit content for the next Issue of Who’s Counting.

Previous newsletters are available HERE.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a Partner in the Global Research Alliance (GRA), is producing a comprehensive integrated assessment on greenhouse gas emissions and short-lived climate pollutants (SCLP) from the Agricultural and Food sector. The report, to be presented at COP 30 in Brazil, will develop national scale SLCP and GHG emission scenarios for 2050. These will explore ‘emission pathways’ comprising combinations of policies and mitigation measures designed to reduce emissions through e.g. changes in national diets, livestock and crop production technologies and practices, and from improvements in food waste management. The attached presentation further outlines the approach being taken.

To help develop these future ‘emission pathway’ scenarios the Agricultural and Food report is using the ADOPT model, developed by CSIRO in Australia. ADOPT is designed to provide a quantitative estimate of peak adoption rates and time to peak adoption of mitigation measures based on the characteristics of the farming population implementing these measures and of the measures themselves.

To help ensure that as far as is possible the data used in the modelling reflects the experience of practitioners working across the globe, the CCAC is consulting on the predicted peak adoption and time to peak adoption values. This consultation will comprise a survey in which participants are asked to provide their answers to a selection of ADOPT questions for a subset of the >100 mitigation measures being considered in the report.

The survey, which is open until December 16^th, 2024, can be accessed HERE. It can be completed by phone or PC.

Could you please also distribute the survey to your networks – the more respondents, the more robust the mitigation assumptions will be.