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Programme version from 26.09.2024

Monday, 21st October 2024 (Plenary Room P2)

TimeAgenda pointPresenters and Session names
13:00 - 14:00Registration 
 Moderation:Julia Wolf, FAO
14:00 - 14:30Welcome
(Plenary Session)

Welcome notes by
Luisa Rölke, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, BMEL (Head of Division Climate Change and Water);
Harry Clark (GRA Special Representative);
Louis Verchot (CGIAR, Lead on Research for Low-Emission Food Systems);
Heinz Flessa (Thünen, Head of Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture)

14:30 - 15:30Keynotes
(Plenary Session)

Sinead Leahy, New Zealand, Principal Scientist, NZAGRC, Co-authored presentation by all research group
co-chairs of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA)
Title: The potential of new technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

Tek Sapkota, Mexico, Climate Change Lead, Sustainable Agrifood System (SAS),
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Title: Costs and benefits for farmers to implement climate change mitigation measures

15:30 - 16:30Panel Discussion
(Plenary Session)
Moderated Panel with keynote speakers and speakers of the welcome notes with Q&A
16:30 - 17:00Coffee break 
17:00 - 18:30Parallel Sessions

1: Meeting 2050 targets and supporting net zero
2: Innovations and technology options for methane reduction through feed and manure management
3: Innovations and technology options for nitrous oxide emissions reductions
4: Potentials for SOC and peatland rewetting

18:30 - 20:00Welcome dinner 

 

Tuesday, 22nd October 2024 (Plenary Room P2)

TimeAgenda pointPresenters and Session names
8:00 - 9:00CoffeeWelcome back
 Moderation:Claudia Heidecke, Thünen Institute
9:00 - 10:00Keynotes
(Plenary Session)
George Wamukoya, Kenya, team leader of AGNES, and lead negotiator on agriculture for G77
(on mitigation pathways for Africa)
Title: Resilient and low emission development pathways in low-income countries:
interactions between food security, greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation


Guillaume Gruère, Paris, OECD, Head of Agriculture and Resource Policies Division
Title: Policy progress towards a low emitting AFOLU sector: Insights from OECD work
10:00 - 10:30Discussion
(Plenary Session)
Q&A
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break 
11:00 - 12:30Parallel Sessions5: Evaluating costs of mitigation and options for implementation
6: National policy analysis for climate
7: Innovations and technology options for methane reduction in rice production
8: Just transitions towards low-emission and resilient agriculture and food systems
9: GHG modelling approaches and tools
12:30 - 14:00Lunch 
 Moderation:Tania Runge, Thünen Institute
14:00 - 15:30Round TablesSplitting up in smaller groups for “mini workshops” on specific topics/selected aspects
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break 
16:00 - 17:00MeetingMeeting of the GRA Science-Policy group
16:00 - 18:00Poster SessionPoster exhibition with poster pitches (organised in exhibition hall in the basement)
EveningNo program 

 

Wednesday, 23rd October 2024 (Plenary Room P2)

TimeAgenda pointPresenters and Session names
8:00 - 9:00CoffeeWelcome back
 Moderation:Nina Grassnick, Thünen Institute
9:00 - 10:00Keynotes
(Plenary Session)
Eva Lini Wollenberg, USA, Policy and Institutions Leader, Climate Action, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT;
Research Professor, Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont
Title: Opportunities and challenges for (voluntary) carbon markets and payment incentives in agriculture

Florian Humpenöder, Berlin, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Title: Food matters: Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways
10:00 - 10:30Discussion
(Plenary Session)
Q&A
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break 
11:00 - 12:30Panel Discussion
(Plenary Sessions)

Panel A: Food systems and emissions along the value chain - What is the role of the private sector?

Panel B: Transforming agricultural production systems

12:30 - 14:00Lunch 
14:00 - 15:30Parallel Sessions10: Integrated assessment of food systems including the role of carbon markets
11: Low emission development pathways for the livestock sector
12: Novel approaches for MRV and potential for remote sensing and AI modelling
13: Agroecology, Agroforestry and other ecosystem services
14: Farm level implementation and managing synergies and trade-offs of mitigation
15:30 - 16:00

Wrap up

Closing Remarks
(Plenary Session)

Thuenen, CGIAR and GRA

Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, BMEL

 

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