In order for governments to be able to incorporate improving animal health in their national climate goals, more precise techniques to monitoring success are essential, a new analysis reveals. Improving animal health can help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
According to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Global Dairy Platform, and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases titled “The role of animal health in national climate commitments,” diseases that affect animals, how long they live, and how productive they are all have a significant impact on GHG emissions.
This indicates that increased funding is required to create procedures for measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV). The majority of countries’ national inventories of greenhouse gases (GHGs) or nationally defined contributions currently lack a consistent technique for accounting for better animal health (NDCs). As a result, when nations commit to fighting climate change, the significance of animal health is frequently not adequately recognized.
The report shows how countries can develop an MRV system at the national level to be able to include animal health improvements in national climate commitments.
But to do that, the report says, it’s essential for countries to use the detailed methodologies known as Tier 2 or 3, developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
