The 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) is currently taking place in Bonn, Germany. Shedding light on Fiji and other Pacific islands most vulnerable to sea-level rise, COP23 stresses the severity of climate change impacts and the urgency to prepare and implement adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Agriculture has an important place in climate-action discussions, recognized as both a contributor and part of a solution to mitigating climate change. There is increasing mentions of ''agriculture advantage'' as well as ''climate-smart agriculture'' that emphasize the importance of climate resilience and mitigation through sustainable agricultural developments.
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Agriculture mitigation and/or adaptation measures were mentioned in 131 INDCs under the Paris Agreement. These refer to pledges and commitments of adaptation and mitigation measures
102 Parties include agricultural adaptation in their INDCs, and the top 5 measures of adaptation were the livestock, crop, fisheries, irrigation and water management sub-sectors (Table 1).
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| Table 1: Number of Parties citing particular measures to enable their agricultural adaptation commitments - Source |
Of the Parties that include mitigation in their INDCs, 103 include targets related to agriculture.Livestock is the most commonly cited mitigation measure, generally focusing on intensification (Table 2).
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| Table 2: Number of Parties citing particular agricultural measures to enable their mitigation targets and actions - Source |
The report adds that the largest contributors to agriculture emissions (USA, China, India) do not include sector-specific targets, which makes it difficult to evaluate whether ''the ambitions of agricultural reductions is sufficient at the global scale''. Lastly, 29 parties include climate-smart agriculture (CSA), 20 parties include ''agro-ecological approaches’' and 9 parties include both CSA and agro-ecological approaches in their NDCs.
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