This project will achieve the following by its completion:
- The government endorses the national roadmap to reduce SLCPs from open burning
Colombia - Deliver a national roadmap to reduce SLCPs from open burning
Ongoing
started:
2022
This project responds to the request by Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and Ministry of Agriculture for services to develop a national roadmap for reducing SLCPs from open burning from the agro-forestry sector, including stubble and pastureland burning and use of fire to clear fallow lands, but excluding prescribed burns on wildlands that includes intentional burning from the agriculture and forestry sector.
This request will support Colombia to develop a national roadmap that includes alternatives to reducing open burning of various residues including from rice, maize, potato, livestock, sugar cane, cacao, banana, coffee, and oil palm. The roadmap should provide recommendations on the circularity and valorisation of crop residues. This request will support Colombia in meeting its NDC commitments. The results of Colombia’s revised NDC modelling scenarios for black carbon and methane will serve as a technical basis for this work. This request will also build on the recommendations proposed by a CCAC supported consultancy on alternatives to agricultural open burning of sugar cane, rice, and maize residues.
Project reference: Colombia - Deliver a national roadmap to reduce SLCPs from open burning [CO-22-001]
Objectives
What we're doing
The main deliverables of this project include:
- An SLCP mitigation assessment (with a focus on black carbon) for the agro-forestry sector, including an assessment of the institutional arrangements, and the policy and regulatory environment
- An assessment of costs associated with the implementation of mitigation measures
- A roadmap for implementing alternatives that reduce the open burning of rice, maize, potato, livestock, sugar cane, cacao, banana, coffee, and oil palm residues
- A report with recommendations on the circularity and valorisation of crop residues
- A monitoring and evaluation framework for black carbon mitigation
