National and international efforts to reduce the human impact on the global climate rely on knowing the amount of GHG emissions and removals attributable to human activities. GHG inventories provide information that is vital for the design of policies and measures to reduce emissions and increase removals of GHGs. The quality of your inventory data relies on the use of appropriate methodologies, reliable statistical information, and representative factors to derive emission estimates. Agriculture-related activities are ubiquitous across the world and are critical to all societies because of the food products and other goods they supply. Emissions from these activities, though, can be challenging to estimate accurately due to the inherent variability in biological systems.
Specifically in this course, you will learn to:
- Identify the specific activities resulting in GHG emissions from agriculture
- Estimate emissions using IPCC methodologies
- Distinguish between methodological tiers available for estimating emissions and their data requirements
- Identify and avoid typical problems with the estimation of emissions from agriculture sector
“The program is amazing. It has helped me understand a lot about greenhouse gas accounting and inventory in the agriculture sector. Before now I could not wrap my head around calculating CO2 and NO2 emissions from manure management, soils, etc. It all seemed impossible. Not so now. For me the only challenge would be having the data to apply my knowledge with. I am more confident about my work.”
– Anna Kalu, Nigeria
“The course on 531 IPCC Agriculture, was very impressive in making me understand very well the GHG inventory in the Agriculture sector. I used to struggle in trying to under sources of GHG emissions from Agriculture and their estimates but now, I have gained a lot in the area of estimating GHG emissions from Agriculture sector, especially all sources of CH4, N2O, NOx and CO2.”
– Mupenzi Mutimura, Rwanda
The course was developed by the GHG Management Institute with the support of the USAID Low Emission Asian Development (LEAD) program.
