Developing nations can cut agricultural methane emissions thanks to an IFAD initiative.
Source: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2023/05/new-ifad-initiative-to-help-reduce-methane-emissions/
Author: Lillian Lawson
A new initiative by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will help developing countries lower their methane emissions from agricultural and small-scale farming practices.
The program will create a guidebook that will help countries integrate mainstream methane reduction into their budgeting, planning, and public investment procedures. This guidebook will also aid multiple bankable interventions that launch methane reduction in the agricultural sector and food systems, with a goal of emission reductions in the countries’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
Technical assistance will be provided to 15 countries to support the integration of methane reduction in their updated NDCs, which will be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2025. IFAD will also assist these countries in designing projects and blended finance solutions to reduce methane emissions in their agricultural and food systems.