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SUMMARY:Webinar: Commissioning and managing agriculture inventory research projects
DESCRIPTION:Join the Inventories and NDC (I&NDC) Network on 5 July from 18:00 – 19:30 (GMT/UTC) for the third session of their 2022 webinar series titled “Commissioning and managing agriculture inventory research projects”. \n\n\n\nIt is crucial to effectively determine research priorities when resources for research are limited. Developing multilateral research projects and working with international research organisations facilitates collaboration across countries with similar production systems and agricultural circumstances. \n\n\n\nIn the first part of the session\, we will hear from experts on the process of designing research to meet inventory needs and ensuring new research results in inventory improvements. In the discussion\, we will consider multinational research prioritisation: timing\, scaling and developing research projects with higher global relevance. \n\n\n\nSpeakers include: \n\n\n\nChair: Claudia Arndt\, ILRI\, KenyaCarlos Gomez\, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina\, PeruJoel Gibbs\, Ministry for Primary Industries\, New ZealandHeinz Flessa\, Thünen Institute\, GermanySanaa Enkhtaivan\, International Consultant\, Switzerland\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies \n\n\n\nJoel Gibbs\, Agriculture GHG Inventory Team Leader\, New Zealand \n\n\n\nJoel Gibbs leads New Zealand’s agriculture inventory team and directs the national inventory research procurement process. For several years Joel has been increasing the visibility of the New Zealand’s inventory research needs and established strong research relationships with the national and international GHG science community. He has secured funding for national and multilateral research projects with countries with similar agricultural production to New Zealand. Joel subsequently led the incorporation of many recommended changes to improve the accuracy of New Zealand’s emission estimates. He is a qualified UNFCCC expert inventory reviewer and has participated in several international reviews. \n\n\n\nHeinz Flessa\, Director\, Thünen Institute\, Germany \n\n\n\nHeinz Flessa is currently the Director of Thünen Institute and previously directed Thünen’s Institute of Agricultural Climate Research. Through his research as a Temperate and Boreal Soil Scientist\, Heinz has worked for several years alongside the German inventory team and was one of the lead contributors to Germany’s first national soil inventory. His research interests include carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soils\, soils as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases\, the effects of land use and climate change on element dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems and stable isotopes in biogeochemical research. Heinz has led the coordination of and contributed to several research projects related to climate protection in agriculture\, the effect of land use\, management\, and site conditions on GHG emissions and controls of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soils. \n\n\n\nCarlos Alfredo Gomez Bravo\, Principal Professor\, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina\, Peru \n\n\n\nCarlos Gomez has been a Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Zootechnics of the La Molina Agrarian University since 1980\, specializing in sustainable livestock production and ruminant nutrition. Carlos worked closely with Peru’s national inventory team for several cycles\, both contributing to accounting and leading research projects to improve Peru’s inventory estimates. He has directed and contributed as a researcher to several development projects related to livestock production\, in coordination with different institutions such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)\, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)\, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)\, International Potato Center (CIP)\, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)\, and the World Bank (WBO). Carlos is currently the Coordinator for Peru of the International Comparison Farm Network – Dairy Products IFCN. \n\n\n\nSanaa Enkhtaivan\, International Consultant and AFOLU MRV Specialist\, Switzerland \n\n\n\nSanaa Enkhtaivan previously led Mongolia’s AFOLU inventory team and the development of a Tier 2 livestock inventory that will be used in Mongolia’s next national submission. Her specific expertise is on agriculture policies and measures\, mitigation actions and their effects\, projections of GHG emissions and research and systematic observation for the AFOLU inventory. Sanaa is a qualified UNFCCC expert reviewer and has participated in several international inventory reviews. Sanaa is currently based in Switzerland\, consulting on related international projects.
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SUMMARY:Webinar: National agriculture inventory data collection and management
DESCRIPTION:Join the Inventories and NDC (I&NDC) Network on 14 June from 18:00 – 19:30 (GMT/UTC) for the second session of their 2022 webinar series titled “National agriculture inventory data collection and management”. \n\n\n\nPolicies for agriculture mitigation strategies\, as we discussed in the first webinar of the I&NDC Network series\, are shaped by accurate national agriculture emissions estimates. However\, estimates are only as good as the data that underpin them. National activity data collection and its management is a universal challenge for compilers from Annex I and non-Annex II countries alike.  \n\n\n\nThe aim of this webinar is to increase awareness on overcoming a lack of good quality data\, and on setting up data management frameworks to support increasing emissions reporting from Tier 1 to Tier 2 levels. The session will bring together expert speakers whose work focuses on improving agriculture inventory activity data related issues. \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies \n\n\n\nAndreas Wilkes – ASEAN and Africa Inventory Capability Building Programme Lead\, NZAGRC \n\n\n\nAndreas is leading New Zealand’s Inventory Capability Building efforts in ASEAN and African countries and has extensive experience in livestock emission MRV and mitigation. Andreas was the lead author of the GRA FAO Livestock Activity Data Guidance which provides guidance on how to collect and analyze the activity data required for Tier 2 livestock GHG inventories. He will present some practical experiences from developing countries\, and reflections on the implications for continuous improvement and research. \n\n\n\nStephen Ogle – Associate Director\, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory\, CSU | Professor\, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability\, CSU \n\n\n\nStephen’s research focus is improving national GHG inventories\, better understanding socioeconomic drivers of land use and management decisions\, and predicting the likelihood of future GHG mitigation in agricultural lands. He has a keen interest in assisting governments in developing countries with improving their GHG inventories and has done extensive capacity-building work in over 20 countries\, assisting national compilers with improving GHG inventories in Asia\, Africa\, Central America and South America. Stephen has contributed as an instructor to numerous science and government inventory training workshops. He was a contributing lead author for the 2019 IPCC Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines of Volume 4\, AFOLU. Stephen led the development of the Agriculture and Land Use National GHG Inventory Software (ALU)\, a free downloadable tool for the estimation of national AFOLU inventories. Along with Dr. Richard Conant\, he established the Master of Greenhouse Gas Management and Accounting Programme at CSU. \n\n\n\nLuanne Stevens – Environmental consultant and GHGMI Fellow \n\n\n\nLuanne has worked in the AFOLU inventory and MRV space for more than 15 years and has been the lead compiler for South Africa’s AFOLU inventory since 2010. She supports developing countries to strengthen their capacity to compile inventories\, develop mitigation projections\, and develop NDCs and MRV systems. Luanne has been involved in capacity building projects across Africa (including Eswatini\, Uganda\, Tanzania\, Lesotho). She is currently supporting the ICAT projects in Eswatini and Uganda\, and was responsible for creating the capacity building modules for the ICAT Forestry and Agriculture Assessment Guides. In addition\, she is the project manager for the IICA-GCF CARICOM AgREADY project in the Caribbean where she has been involved in assessing the role of agriculture in NDCs across the Caribbean\, providing training to inventory compilers and data collectors\, and assisting in the development of agriculture inventory improvement plans. \n\n\n\nSekai Ngarize – Senior Agriculture\, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) and MRV Specialist \n\n\n\nSekai currently works as an international Climate and MRV consultant strengthening institutional capacity in developing countries for compliance with the Transparency Reporting Requirements of the Paris Agreement. She recently supported the Government of Zimbabwe to develop a revised economy wide NDC. She supported the UNFCCC/UNEP GSP on capacity building for developing countries in the AFOLU sector\, including establishing national MRV systems and baseline projections in Swaziland (Eswatini) and Zimbabwe\, Ethiopia\, Suriname and Seychelles. She worked as the AFOLU Programme Officer for the IPCC Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) where she was responsible for the technical development of the IPCC 2006 Reporting Guidelines for AFOLU\, and for providing methodological and technical guidance to experts involved in inventory compilation globally. She was an editor for the IPCC 2019 Refinement of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines. She worked as a Senior Science and Policy Advisor at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change\, and for the UK Department of Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)\, and represented the UK in international negotiations. She is an accredited UNFCCC expert reviewer for GHG inventories\, and has reviewed the national inventories of the UK\, South Africa\, Namibia\, Seychelles\, Zimbabwe\, Zambia\, Lesotho\, India\, Indonesia\, Swaziland (Eswatini)\, New Zealand\, Iceland\, Cyprus\, Norway\, Iceland\, Poland and Czech Republic.
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The policy relevance of national GHG inventories in guiding mitigation for agriculture
DESCRIPTION:Join the Inventories and NDC (I&NDC) Network on 24 May from 13:00 – 14:30 (GMT/UTC) for the first session of their 2022 webinar series titled “The policy relevance of national GHG inventories in guiding mitigation for agriculture”. \n\n\n\nThis webinar will bring together leading experts and industry stakeholders to discuss the relevance of national agriculture inventories in guiding policy decisions and questions including: \n\n\n\nWhy are agriculture GHG inventories so crucial for policy decisions?How can industry organisations and the inventory work together?What is the relationship between climate finance\, research\, and national agriculture inventories?\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe will discuss the political dimension of inventories in the context of decisions on agriculture emission mitigation policies\, determination of national emission targets\, sector goals for voluntary or mandated emission targets and more. \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda \n\n\n\nItemSpeaker(s)Welcome & openingI&NDC Network Co-leadsHayden MontgomeryOverview of National Agriculture GHG InventoryMarta AlfaroIndustry PerspectivesBrian LindsayBrenna GrantPolicy\, Science and Negotiation PerspectivesGeorge WamukoyaAlvaro RoelHerwig RannerPanel Discussion and Q&AAll\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies \n\n\n\nChair: Hayden Montgomery\, Special Representative at Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases / Agriculture Programme Director at Global Methane Hub \n\n\n\nMarta Alfaro\, Chilean Agriculture Inventory Team Leader / INIA Researcher \n\n\n\nDr. Marta Alfaro is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) in Chile. Her research field is nutrient cycling and GHG emissions from livestock systems. She has led national and international grants to develop country-specific emission factors\, generate strategies for improving adaptation/mitigation in the agriculture sector\, and provide training and capacity building for Latin-American countries. She has received national and international scientific awards and recognitions from scientific societies. She currently leads the team that estimates the Chilean agricultural sector inventory of GHG. She is a member of the roster of experts for the review of GHG inventories of Annex I Parties from the UNFCCC\, and member of the Emission Factor Database Editorial Board from the IPCC. She has been recently appointed as a member of the Scientific Council for Sustainable Agriculture of the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture. Marta also is the nominated representative of Chile as the Chair of the GRA Council for the 2022 – 2023 term. \n\n\n\nBrian Lindsay\, Director of Dairy Sustainability Framework / Global Sector Lead of the Global Dairy Platform \n\n\n\nBrian is the Director for the Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF)\, launched in November 2013. This program covers 30% of global milk production and is open to all milk producing regions of the globe. Brian is also responsible for a Board of nine global (Global Dairy Association CEO’s) directors and the coordination of the DSF multi-stakeholder advisory Group who both challenge and support the DSF Board and subsequent DSF operational procedures. Additionally\, Brian is Global Dairy Platform’s (GDP) Global sector Lead for Sustainability. This involves reviewing new science\, responding to global food industry and political consultations at a number of levels\, providing position statements on behalf of the global dairy sector. The GDP’s Board is made up of CEO’s of the world’s major dairy companies such as Dairy Farmers of America\, Fonterra\, Arla Foods\, Mengniu and Friesland Campina. \n\n\n\nBrenna Grant\, Executive Director\, Canfax & Canfax Research Services (divisions of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association) \n\n\n\nBrenna oversee’s Canfax Research Services (CRS) which provides the Canadian beef industry with comprehensive statistical and market information on the domestic and global beef trends. Brenna is passionate about providing information to beef producers in Canada to make better decisions. Finding data sources\, researching and analyzing what is available to provide a clear story and forecast the risks along the way. She is currently the Chair of the Statistics Canada Agriculture and Food Advisory Committee and Chairs the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef’s Science Committee on Climate. CRS focuses on global and long-term outlooks; performance measurement for marketing and research; economic and market research. In 2015\, CRS completed the first economic assessment of the Canadian beef industry for the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and in 2021\, CRS launched the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network. \n\n\n\nGeorge Wamukoya\, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) \n\n\n\nGeorge has over 30 years’ experience and expertise in formulation of international\, regional and national policies. He is the Team Leader\, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES). George was among the 11 Co-Facilitators that facilitated negotiations that resulted in the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. He co-facilitated UNFCCC negotiations on Nationally Determined Contributions Common Time Frames and is a lead negotiator on issues related to agriculture on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN). George has served as Climate Change Advisor to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)\, GIZ-CAADP Support Programme of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and DFID funded Regional Programme on Climate Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa. For many years George was part of the legal experts that implemented UNEP’s Training Programme of Judges\, Magistrates and Prosecutors on the implementation of environmental laws in Africa. George was the Joint Secretary to the National Committee on the Implementation of the Environmental Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) which established the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA-Kenya). George holds a doctorate degree in law and is a recipient of the Presidential Award of the Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) for outstanding work in environmental conservation. \n\n\n\nAlvaro Roel\, INIA Uruguay\, Researcher INIA National Rice Research Program / Co-lead of GRA Paddy Rice Research Group \n\n\n\nDuring the previous 25 years\, Alvaro has worked in alignment with national and public policy objectives whilst holding diverse positions in his field including research prioritization and administration and developing institutional vision and strategy. He has established strong private-public relationships among industry\, government\, and inventory stakeholders to advance global agriculture emission mitigation and quantification issues. Following his studies in ecology at the University of California-Davis\, Alvaro occupied various positions at INIA Uruguay\, including Regional Director\, National Rice Research Program Director\, and President of INIA’s board. Alvaro led the team that calculated the first carbon footprint of the rice sector in Uruguay in 2012. In 2014\, his team of scientists established country specific emission factors through their research measuring methane\, nitrous oxide\, and other nitrogen emissions along two rice growing seasons. Alvaro has been a long-standing member and Co-lead of the GRA-Paddy Rice Research Group (PRRG) since its creation in 2010. Alvaro’s research currently focuses on determining environmental and productivity trade-offs of rice\, with special emphasis on the effects of irrigation management in overall water use efficiency. \n\n\n\nHerwig Ranner\, Coordinator for Climate Change working in the Directorate General of Agriculture and Rural Development\, European Commission \n\n\n\nFollowing his studies in zoology\, marine biology and marine biogeochemistry in Vienna\, Marseille\, the Dutch Oceanographic Institute and the Free University of Brussels\, Herwig worked successively for environmental NGOs\, a Member of the European Parliament and the European Seaports Organisation before starting at the European Commission. Since 2012 Herwig led the agriculture negotiations for the EU at the UNFCCC negotiations.
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