Date: October 21, 2020. 
Time: 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. (Bogotá, Colombia time) 

The webinar series of the RFP component addresses key issues for the agricultural sector and promotes the exchange of knowledge and best practices to strengthen individual, organisational and institutional competencies for the management of NDC-related processes.

Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are an effective tool for achieving the Paris Agreement targets at the country level. A NAMA allows for the design of a long-term low-emission development (LED) strategy with a system for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of the impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By registering a NAMA with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, the country can gain international recognition and attract international support, e.g. from the Green Climate Fund or the NAMA Facility. This seminar presents three cases of NAMA use in the agri-food sector.

This seminar includes three cases of the use of NAMAs in the agro-food sector. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica presents an overview of how NAMA is being used as a strategic tool for the development of the sector, and more specifically NAMA Livestock. The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, with funds from EUROCLIMA+, is supporting the formulation of two NAMAs together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of El Salvador and the Ministry of Agricultural Development of Panama, and shares the advances of the formulation of Sustainable Rice and Livestock NAMAs focusing on the baseline for MRV. The Honduran Coffee Institute presents the advances of NAMA Café that is being developed in cooperation with the Honduran Climate Change Office, EUROCLIMA+, Hanns R. Neuman Stiftung and other partners, with emphasis on the current phase of presenting the concept note to the Green Climate Fund.