Climate CoLab Land Use Webinar: International Activities Jayant Sathaye Advisor 25 June 2014

2 Climate CoLab Land Use (CCLU) Participants Contest Advisors: Dr. Jayant Sathaye and Dr. D. James Baker Members: Tal Lee Anderman, Simone Targetti Ferri, Ryan Hottle, and Christina Starr Additional Advisors: Ken Andrasko, WRI, Michael Ferrari, Coca Cola, and Roger Sathre, LBNL

3 CC Land Use Activities The land use contest encompasses activities, emissions, impacts, and adaptation within agriculture and forestry sectors. Project proposals would seek to identify and quantify potential interventions to reduce GHG emissions, to maintain and enhance carbon storage, and/or to support robust adaptation measures to reduce vulnerability.

Land Use Activities Similar process was conducted from March to Nov Submissions were set to include both Agriculture and Forestry activities as noted in 2014 Proposals focused on many countries, e.g., Pakistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and of course USA Topics had about 28 submissions Two step review – a list of 10 highly regarded proposals were requested for additional information

Land Use Activities After a series of revisions, 59 promising proposals were chosen as finalists. Over the month of August, you--our community-- engaged a record number of people (more than double the number case in the prior CoLab contest), membership soared to above 10,000, and we had visitors reading and selecting proposals from almost every country in the world.

6 Selected CC Land Use Activities Two Agriculture and Forestry Projects proposals were finally approved and posted at the web site and set for comparison with proposals on other CoLab topics: Judges' Choice: Nicaragua Carbon Sink Economic Driver and Medical Plant Preservation / Cecalli Esteli Popular Choice: Woody Agriculture: Breeding and Implementing Hazelnut and Chestnut as Staple Crops / Badgersett Research

7 CC Land Use Activities Agriculture Agriculture is both a cause and mitigator of climate change and is likely to be significantly impacted by it. Agriculture accounts for 19-29% of global GHG emissions from human activities. At the same time worldwide, crop yields are expected to decline ~10% with every one degree C rise in global average surface temperatures. Strategies exist to increase crop, livestock and sustainable forestry while at the same time combating poverty, increasing the resilience of farmers, and mitigating climate change. In terms of mitigation, agriculture could play a large role in decreasing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), black carbon (BC) soot, and methane (CH4). Soils and trees could also sequester significant quantities of CO2 globally.

8 CC Land Use Activities -- Forestry Forestry About 30 percent of the global land area is covered by forests, totaling nearly 4,000 million hectares (ha). Net loss of forest land in recent years is about 7 million ha per year, as land is deforested for agriculture and other built environments. Emissions from deforestation are approximately 5 to 15% of total global CO2 emissions. In the forest sector, there are many ways to reduce GHG emissions from sources and/or to increase GHG removals by sinks. These include: reducing deforestation reforestation and afforestation increasing landscape level carbon density, reducing consumption of deforestation drivers (e.g. palm oil, beef), and increasing product and fuel substitution, as well as carbon stocks in wood products.

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