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Status and opportunities for improvement in greenhouse gas emission inventories for the cattle production in Latin America and the Caribbean region: A perspective

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Title Status and opportunities for improvement in greenhouse gas emission inventories for the cattle production in Latin America and the Caribbean region: A perspective
 
Creator Ruden, Alejandro
Torres, Felipe
Berndt, Alexandre
Gómez, Carlos
Salazar, Francisco
Casallas, Ivon
Montenegro, Johnny
Ku-Vera, Juan C.
Manrique, María Lourdes
García Ascolani, Mariana
Alfaro, Marta
Cornejo, Paulo
Oyhantçabal, Walter
Misselbrook, Tom H.
Arango, Jacobo
 
Subject agriculture
climate change
cattle production
greenhouse gas emissions
livestock systems
 
Description The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides the reference for national greenhouse gas emission (GHG) inventories towards standardized, accurate, measurable, and comparable National Inventory Reports (NIR). For compliance with the 1.5⁰C commitments under the Paris Agreement, most countries have made efforts to improve their inventory methods to tier 2 or 3. However, some relevant activities within Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries, such as enteric methane emissions and methane and nitrous oxide emissions from cattle manure management are still estimated using tier 1 methods, which leads to a high uncertainty due to the importance of livestock emissions in the national totals for these countries. In this context, reducing the uncertainty in GHG inventories would not only improve the accuracy of national reports but it would also provide solid baselines for national mitigation initiatives e.g., Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement, and accurate tools to venture into carbon bonds or payments for ecosystem services. The aim of this study was to review the status of national GHG inventories specifically for these three cattle emission categories in 11 LAC countries. We conducted a survey of GHG inventory experts in the 11 LAC countries, to identify the potential for improvement and the main barriers to achieving this. Despite some initiatives, there is still a large potential for reducing the uncertainty in LAC national GHG emission estimates, the barriers to or solutions can be categorized as technical, policy, and institutional issues. However, improving the GHG inventories of LAC countries, specifically for cattle emissions, is feasible in the medium term, as long as multilateral actions are considered, coherently linked under a comparable and verifiable methodology and including a commitment by countries to invest public funds in relevant research and innovations.
 
Date 2023-05-15
2023-07-10T10:15:43Z
2023-07-10T10:15:43Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ruden, A.; Torres, F.; Berndt, A.; Gómez, C.; Salazar, F.; Casallas, I.; Montenegro, J.; Ku, J.; Manrique, M.L.; García-Ascolani, M.; Alfaro, M.; Cornejo, P.; Oyhantcabal, W.; Misselbrook, T.; Arango, J. (2023) Status and opportunities for improvement in greenhouse gas emission inventories for the cattle production in Latin America and the Caribbean region: A perspective. PLOS Climate 2(5): e0000101. ISSN: 2767-3200
2767-3200
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131049
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000101
 
Language en
 
Rights CC0-1.0
Open Access
 
Format e0000101
application/pdf
 
Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 
Source PLOS Climate