Embedding SLCP mitigation objectives in livestock development strategies for scaled-up action: the case of Ethiopia and Bangladesh

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) supports countries to identify increasingly ambitious actions, policies and targets across the agriculture sector. The CCAC demonstrates solutions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants that deliver quick benefits for the climate and air quality. All solutions are based on existing technology and can be carried out at no or low cost. 

As part of this process, the CCAC has been working to transform ruminant livestock production systems to improve productivity as well as reduce emissions of enteric methane per unit of animal product. With support of  the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) the  CCAC supported enteric methane project had as objective to identify and disseminate innovative low-cost or no-cost solutions that can be packaged together to result in multiple benefits for farmers and producers in addition to reducing enteric methane emissions. 

The country assessments for Bangladesh and Ethiopia served as a launchpad for the second phase of work that focused on: (a) implementing methane mitigation at scale; and (b) supporting selected countries in replicating and extending the successful Phase 1 approach.

The CCAC supported Phase 2 enteric methane project managed to ensure the mainstreaming of investment choices that reduce methane emission intensity in two large scale World Bank investment projects in Ethiopia and in Bangladesh, and in one GEF project in Uruguay with a combined investment value of nearly half a billion USD. Under this initiative, the CCAC supported awareness-raising activities, policy dialogue, data collection and modelling of methane emissions reduction potentials under different scenarios, in direct collaboration with the project design teams. This resulted in the adoption of mitigation targets in the result framework, activities geared towards these targets and high climate change co-benefits.

Objective of the session:To demonstrate and promote the prioritisation of SLCP reduction approaches into country level livestock development investments. This will build on the lessons learned from the World Bank projects in Ethiopia and Bangladesh where CCAC funding enabled a greater focus on SLCP reductions.

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