{"id":243,"date":"2018-06-29T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/?p=243"},"modified":"2018-06-29T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:47:00","slug":"climate-finance-supports-transition-to-low-emission-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/06\/29\/climate-finance-supports-transition-to-low-emission-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate finance supports transition to low-emission systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-244 alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Cattle-Brazil-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Cattle-Brazil-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Cattle-Brazil-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Cattle-Brazil-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Cattle-Brazil.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Today I had the pleasure of speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gra_haydenm\">Hayden Montgomery<\/a>, Special\u00a0 Representative\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">for the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/globalresearchalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GRA<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">), a CCAFS Strategic\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Research Partn<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">er. GR<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">A is focused on resea<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">rch, development and extension of technologies and practices that help deliver ways to grow more food (and more climate-resilient food systems) without growing greenhouse gas emissions. CCAFS, GRA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAO<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">) are collaborating to identify Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems to track and report on climate change mitigation activities in the livestock sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CCAFS and GRA released a report entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgspace.cgiar.org\/bitstream\/handle\/10568\/89335\/CCAFS_Report17.pdf\"><em>Measurement, reporting and verification of livestock GHG emissions by developing countries in the UNFCCC:\u00a0current practices and opportunities for improvement<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>with support from USAid. One aspect of the research that caught my interest is that national mitigation strategies, INDCs and climate finance opportunities tend to be drivers of livestock GHG emission inventory improvement efforts. And, if Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) and and national MRV systems are aligned across subnational and national levels, finance and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) accounting needs can be met.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the project can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/blog\/tracking-mitigation-livestock-sector-country-experiences#.WzZNPRJKj2U\">CCAFS website<\/a>\u00a0and you can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gra_ghg?lang=en\">GRA<\/a> for the latest developments on their fantastic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Hayden Montgomery, Special\u00a0 Representative\u00a0for the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), a CCAFS Strategic\u00a0Research Partner. GRA is focused on research, development and extension of technologies and practices that help deliver ways to grow more food (and more climate-resilient food systems) without growing greenhouse gas emissions. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/06\/29\/climate-finance-supports-transition-to-low-emission-systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate finance supports transition to low-emission systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}