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The development of a full understanding of the
diversity of livestock systems and indentifying priority
areas for improving the quantification and mitigation of
non-C02 GHG emissions
Project Details
Project Title
:
The development of a full understanding of the diversity of livestock
systems and indentifying priority areas for improving the
quantification and mitigation of non-C02 GHG Emissions
Funding
Agency
:
New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre
(NZAGRC) on behalf of Global Research Alliance (GRA) on
Agricultural Greenhouse Gases
Participating
Countries
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1. Indonesia
2. Malaysia
3. Thailand
4. Vietnam
Assisted by NZAGRC
Background: Alliance
• GRA on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases launched in
December 2009
• Malaysia signed the Alliance Charter in 24 June 2011
• Current members: 33 countries including Malaysia
Member countries
Heads of Delegations at the Alliance Ministerial Summit in Rome, Italy
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA, Uruguay and Vietnam
Background: Reason for the Alliance
• Agriculture contributes 14% of world’s GHG
• Expected to increase by 30-40% by 2050 with ↑demand for food
• Many countries have research to better understand, measure,
and manage agricultural GHG
• GRA - link these research efforts to achieve faster solutions to ↑
agricultural productivity ↓ its contribution to climate change
• Alliance consists of three research groups:
 Livestock
 Croplands
 Paddy Rice
Background: Activities of the Alliance
• Improve knowledge sharing, create networking's
• Develop the science and technology needed to improve the
measurement and estimation of GHG using consistent
methodological approaches
• Facilitate the exchange of information & help scientists gain
expertise in mitigation knowledge and technologies, through
developing new partnerships and exchange opportunities
Sponsored training in New Zealand on methane measurement
Present Project Background
• Several Livestock Research Group meetings were held with
experts from member countries
• A project to quantify livestock GHG in SEA was proposed
• New Zealand agreed to fund this project and 4 countries in SEA
were invited to participate
• Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand & Vietnam initiated the project
with technical assistance from NZAGRC
• This project would be the foundation for a bigger project with
international funding (eg. FONTAGRO project - Argentina, Chile,
Colombia, R. Dominicana, Uruguay & New Zealand)
Current Project Objectives
1. Describe the key livestock production systems and the main
associated livestock emissions in the SE Asia region
2. Analyse the data set to identify common and country-specific
priority areas for improvement of emissions estimates
3. Identify common priority actions and agree on the final
recommendations for future work to enhance regional capacity,
improve inventories and mitigation of GHG emissions from
livestock systems in south-east Asia
4. Final project report submitted to the New Zealand Ministry for
Primary Industries and NZAGRC (end 2013)
Project Benefits
1. NRE obligated to prepare National Communication to be
submitted to UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change)
2. Malaysia - submitted two NC’s (1994 & 2011) working on NC3
3. Current livestock GHG estimation based on IPCC
(Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change) Tier 1 default
factors
4. Present - 3% from livestock - expected to increase with
anticipated ↑ in SSL
Project Advantages
1. IPCC Tier 1 - based on livestock population alone with a common
factor for the whole of Asia
2. Many countries have migrated to Tier 2 and some Tier 3
3. Tier 2 - requires additional data on population breakdown,
production systems, feed energy, waste characteristics etc
4. Tier 3 is country specific developed models
5. All methodology/data has to be verified by IPCC/UNFCCC
6. This project can help Malaysia & other SEA countries establish
Tier 2 methodologies
7. This project help identify future regional research initiatives
Proposal of the Presentation
1. MOA (DVS & MARDI) responsible to provide accurate livestock GHG
data to NRE for National Communications (2 yr)
2. Seek collaboration in the current project to gather data on livestock
3. Establish collaborative links for future research on GHG inventories
and mitigation
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IPCC Default Emission Factor for Asia
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Preliminary estimation of average Emission
Factor (kg CH4/hd/yr)for beef cattle for
Indonesia and Malaysia based on Tier 2
method compared to the current default
IPCC factor (Tier 1)
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5
0
Indonesia
Malaysia
Research Activities in Other Countries
Indonesia
TOTAL COLLECTION
METHANE
COLLECTION
Thailand
Thank You