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Item Virtual Launch of the Breakthrough Agenda Report 2024(Video, 2024-09-27) International Energy Agency; UN Climate ChangeThe Breakthrough Agenda Report 2024 assesses the impact of international collaboration in accelerating the transition to clean energy technologies and sustainable solutions in key sectors. It was prepared by the International Energy Agency in collaboration with the UN Climate Change High-Level Action Champions Team at the request of world leaders. This is the third report in a series that assesses progress made over the past year on international collaboration in the largest emitting sectors – power, hydrogen, road transport, steel, cement and buildings. Together, these sectors account for roughly three-quarters of cumulative emissions reductions in the IEA Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario. A separate report, led by CGIAR, looks at progress made in the agriculture sector. Both reports provide assessments that can support governments, businesses and civil society with actionable next steps to strengthen collaboration in and across the major emitting sectors. The guidance spans finance, research and development, demand-side adoption, supporting infrastructure and public engagement. Since its launch at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26), the Breakthrough Agenda has become established as an annual collaborative process centred around the COP meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is supported by 59 countries representing over 80% of global GDP, and by over 150 initiatives working to enhance collaboration within major emitting sectors. This report is designed to track and support progress towards that aim ahead of the 15th Clean Energy Ministerial and the 9th Ministerial Meeting on Mission Innovation in Brazil and the COP 29 Climate Change Conference in Baku in November 2024. This webinar will present the key findings of the reports, followed by a Q&A session with the authors.Item Launch of the 2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture(Video, 2024-11-20) CGIARThe Breakthrough Agenda was launched by 45 world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021 and is a commitment to work together to accelerate innovation and the deployment of clean technologies, making them accessible and affordable for all by 2030. The ‘2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture’ is the first standalone report to focus on agriculture within the Breakthrough Agenda series. This report draws on CGIAR’s and global stakeholders’ expertise to assess the status of international collaboration toward implementing sustainable practices in agriculture, and to propose clear recommendations for sector-specific actions that governments and non-state actors need to take together. The report focuses on the two greatest sources of GHG emissions within the agrifood sector – fertilizers and livestock – and explores four concrete technologies for reducing emissions and had its first physical launch at the Baku Climate Action Week on October 1st 2024. It complements the IEA Breakthrough Agenda Report, which was presented at the Clean Energy Ministerial in Brazil on October 2nd, 2024.Item Climate Change Threatens Agriculture: Adapting for Food Security (CGIAR Climate Impact Platform Director, Aditi Mukherji, calls for climate and agri-food sector to work hand in hand in UNFCCC video)(Video, 2024-11-24) UN Climate Change; CGIARThe UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan is all about implementing the Paris Agreement and ramping up ambition and action. Among the key priorities of COP 29 are securing a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilient communities. Also in focus will be the next round of national climate plans, or NDCs, currently being developed by countries ahead of next year’s deadline and ensuring these bolder, fully implementable and investable strategies and targets are economy-wide, focus on transitioning away from fossil fuels, and keep the world on track to 1.5 degrees of warming.Item Loss and Damage (L&D)—the economic and non-economic consequences of extreme weather events(Video, 2024-11-22) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformWelcome to the first video in CGIAR's Climate Impact Platform video series, where we explore the impacts of climate change on the agri-food sector. In this video, we dive into the concept of Loss and Damage (L&D) — the economic and non-economic consequences of extreme weather events like cyclones, droughts, and heatwaves. As one of the most climate-exposed sectors, agri-food systems are at the forefront of loss and damage. Watch now to learn about the impacts of climate change on agriculture, the historic UNFCCC Loss and Damage Fund, the role of science in understanding these impacts, and the urgent need for targeted climate finance to support vulnerable communities — all in the pursuit of a more food-secure and climate-resilient future for all.Item Tracking Global Adaptation: Indicators and LDC Priorities at COP29(Video, 2024-10-23) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformAs the global community converges on COP29, the focus has shifted from defining an overarching goal for climate adaptation to identifying indicators that can be applied globally to measure progress toward the agreed targets and support their effective implementation. The success of COP29’s adaptation agenda hinges on its ability to facilitate both the measurement of progress and the implementation of actionable strategies, reflecting a deep understanding of the diverse challenges different regions face. The outcomes will facilitate a decision on adaptation indicators under the GGA at COP30, making it imperative that efforts to measure and implement adaptation actions reflect the realities and needs of those on the frontlines of climate impacts. This webinar will bring together four expert voices to explore a series of key considerations for identifying effective global indicators that track progress on adaptation and takes into account the needs of LDCs. Dr Timo Leiter, from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE), will speak on the status of the UNFCCC process and the current discourse around measuring and implementing adaptation at the international level. In addition, Dr Luckson Zvobgo, postdoctoral research fellow, at the Africa Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, will draw upon a recent blog he co-authored with Dr Leiter to highlight key considerations that must be addressed to ensure that adaptation indicators are realistic, actionable, and reflective of the varying needs of different regions and sectors, especially the LDCs priorities. Dr Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, Senior Advisor for Adaptation and Resilience at the United Nations Foundation, will offer expert commentary based on LDCs' expectations as they approach COP29, and how to elevate adaptation ambition and action through the GGA and COP-29 and beyond.Item IPCC and GGA expert group (GGA Expert Group on Food, Water & Health and the Food systems-related adaptation and mitigation in the AR7 IPCC cycle)(Video, 2024-11-20) CGIARIPCC and GGA expert group (GGA Expert Group on Food, Water & Health and the Food systems-related adaptation and mitigation in the AR7 IPCC cycle) The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has recently appointed 78 experts to refine the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) indicators, focusing on seven thematic targets and the adaptation policy cycle. Concurrently, in January 2024, the IPCC approved the set of scientific reports for its Seventh Assessment Cycle, which includes a report dedicated to revising the 1994 IPCC Technical Guidelines on impacts and adaptation, as well as adaptation indicators, metrics, and guidelines. Given these parallel initiatives, there is a significant opportunity to harmonize efforts between the IPCC's review of adaptation methods and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)'s work on adaptation indicators through expert engagement. This session aims to bring together experts involved in the UNFCCC process and IPCC bureau members—including co-chairs and vice-chairs—to discuss points of alignment and explore how the two processes can mutually benefit each other.Item CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 5: Measuring the Effectiveness of Adaptation Insights from IFAD and GEF Projects(Video, 2024-07-22) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformMeasuring the Effectiveness of Adaptation Insights from IFAD and GEF Projects CGIAR Climate Impact Platform Webinar #5 As the world inches closer to breaching the 1.5°C pre-industrial warming threshold, the urgency of adapting to climate change and mitigating its effects becomes increasingly critical. The agricultural sector, which contributes approximately one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is also one of the most vulnerable to climate impacts. The sector faces a dual challenge: reducing its own emissions while rapidly adapting to ensure food security. Adaptation involves adjusting to actual or expected climate change and its effects, aiming to reduce the vulnerability of communities, ecosystems, and economies. This includes measures to cope with extreme weather, rising sea levels, and shifting agricultural zones. Effective adaptation enhances resilience, enabling systems to withstand and recover from climate-related disruptions. The question remains, are current adaptation efforts effectiItem CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series: Webinar 4: About Adaptation and Carbon Dioxide Removalin a Warming World(Video, 2024-06-28) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformThe effectiveness of adaptation in reducing climate-related risks is known to decline at higher warming levels (Lissner et al., 2024). Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is one way to stabilize temperature levels as stated in the latest CDR report, even though deep and sustained emissions reduction in all sectors remains the most important pathway for keeping within Paris-agreed goals. From these two facts, we ask: What do we know about adaptation and CDR in a warming world? The latest webinar from CGIAR’s Climate Impact Platform will explore this question, bringing together expert speakers from two different fields of climate research. Adaptation actions are becoming less effective as the average global temperature continues to climb. Dr Tabea Lissner, Research Director, Global Solutions Initiative and a Lead Author of the 6th IPCC Assessment, has dedicated her career to understanding climate change adaptation, vulnerability, and risk. Her talk will spring from this study and this Carbon Brief blog post, bItem Climate Impact Platform Area Webinar Series - Webinar 2: Loss and Damage—Understanding its past, present, and future(Video, 2024-04-23) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformThe planet has already warmed by approximately 1.1°C due to human-induced climate change, affecting every region and impacting millions with higher temperatures, less predictable rainfall, rising seas, and fiercer storms. The agrifood sector, which supports 3.83 billion livelihoods, is especially vulnerable due to its dependence on weather. Reducing the emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (mitigation) is critical to limit temperature rise and secure a liveable future for us all. Action must also be taken to protect communities from the worsening impacts of climate change and build resilience (adaptation). Yet, collective efforts to curb emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change are not currently enough to tackle the speed and scale of climate impacts — meaning that some losses and damages from climate change are inevitable. We are witnessing dangerous and widespread losses and damages today, and we anticipate that future loss and damages will rise with increased global warming. HowItem CGIAR Climate Community of Practice Launch, April 12, 2024 5pm session(Video, 2024-04-16) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformThe Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Area Platform was established in 2023, marking its official launch with the appointment of a full-time Climate Platform Director in March of that year. Designed to streamline CGIAR's efforts to integrate cutting-edge science with strategic pathways for impact. The Climate Impact Area Platform is mandated to convene CGIAR’s climate scientists and synthesize climate research to enhance the capacity of CGIAR and its partners, amplify external visibility, engage with prominent climate voices, provide advice on portfolio-level management and strategy, and monitor the outcomes of various Initiatives. Central to its mission, the Platform has compiled a comprehensive list of all CGIAR scientists across all centers involved in climate-related work to establish a robust Community of Practice. With the formal launch of this community, the Platform will establish smaller thematic working groups, advancing climate knowledge within the CGIAR system. On April 12, 2024, we formalItem CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 1: How can attribution science inform loss and damage?(Video, 2024-03-25) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformAs the climate changes, extreme weather events’ frequency and intensity increase. Record-breaking heat waves on land and in the ocean, drenching rains, severe floods, years-long droughts, extreme wildfires, and widespread flooding are all becoming more frequent and intense. But now, we can calculate the influence of climate change on (some) of these extreme weather events. Low agricultural yields with devastating consequences can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change thanks to large-ensemble climate data and impact modelling: this is attribution science. The science is being used to trace climate change to the activities of specific industries and companies, potentially generating evidence to fuel climate litigation. As the magazine Anthroposphere put it: has weather lost its innocence? And – we ask – what does this mean for loss and damage? CGIAR Climate Impact Platform is launching a new webinar series focused on new and innovative topics. In our inaugural webinar, Dr Friederike Otto (The Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment) explains the legal and policy implications of attribution science, discussing its development in recent years and exploring how it can be a useful tool for loss and damage attribution. But ‘disasters’ are not just the hazard. Attribution analyses focus on extreme weather events, but vulnerability, exposure, and capacity also play key roles in understanding the severity and extent of the impacts. Additionally, Dr Joyce Kimutai (The Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment) explored how attribution science cannot be the sole determinant of loss and damage assessments, given the data limitations in many African countries. She also discusses alternative ways of determining losses and damages that may be more appropriate for contexts where the powers of attribution science are limited. The webinar concluded with the need to improve data quality and accessibility for climate change attribution and to focus on vulnerability in the loss and damage framework.Item The Breakthrough Agenda Report 2024 - Agriculture(Video, 2024-09-27) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformAgriculture is a significant source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and food systems contribute to nearly one-third of global emissions. The Breakthrough Agenda Report 2024 – Agriculture highlights the need for stronger international collaboration to transform the sector into a more climate-resilient, low-emissions system that meets other societal and environmental goals.Item CGIAR Climate Impact Area Webinar Series - Webinar 3: Carbon Credits: Can they be fixed?(Video, 2024-05-21) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformMost countries, institutions, companies and individuals will continue to generate greenhouse gas emissions through their activities even as the world decarbonises, meaning many are choosing to compensate for these ‘residual’ emissions. The most common approach for doing so is to purchase carbon credits. The world’s forests store an estimated 861 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to approximately 100 years' worth of anthropogenic emissions, at current rates—and with good husbandry could potentially store up to 226 billion tonnes more. Clearly, preserving and repairing forests is a vital element of mitigating climate breakdown. But, worldwide, forests are under threat, and financial and political incentives to clear land can often defeat attempts at regulation. One answer is to transfer some of the global benefits of preservation to forest communities, paying them to preserve the forest that they would otherwise have cleared and thus preserving the forest while compensating communities for foregone income. This is (forest) carbon offsetting – and it is failing. Yale Environmental Economist Professor Rohini Pande will explain why in this exploratory webinar, the third in our series highlighting important areas of climate research that CGIAR does not yet work on extensively.Item CGIAR Climate Community of Practice Launch, 12 April 2024, 9am session(Video, 2024-04-15) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformThe Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Area Platform was established in 2023, marking its official launch with the appointment of a full-time Climate Platform Director in March of that year. Designed to streamline CGIAR's efforts to integrate cutting-edge science with strategic pathways for impact. The Climate Impact Area Platform is mandated to convene CGIAR’s climate scientists and synthesize climate research to enhance the capacity of CGIAR and its partners, amplify external visibility, engage with prominent climate voices, provide advice on portfolio-level management and strategy, and monitor the outcomes of various Initiatives. Central to its mission, the Platform has compiled a comprehensive list of all CGIAR scientists across all centers involved in climate-related work to establish a robust Community of Practice. With the formal launch of this community, the Platform will establish smaller thematic working groups, advancing climate knowledge within the CGIAR system. On April 12, 2024, we formally launched the CGIAR’s Climate Community of Practice, which brings together over 600 scientists from across the CGIAR centers.Item CGIAR's Agriculture Breakthrough 2023 Launch Event(Video, 2023-10-03) CGIARThis was a webinar for the launch of CGIAR led Breakthrough Report, with high profile speakers including Ban ki Moon and Minister from New Zealand.Item How can scientific assessment drive climate action? An interactive discussion: UK Pavilion COP28(Video, 2024) Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, United KingdomThis is a video recording of a session at the UK Pavillion at COP28 where the CGIAR Climate Impact Platform Lead (Aditi Mukherji) spoke along with the Chair of the IPCC AR7 on the role of agri-food systems and systems transition in the next AR7 cycle.Item From commitment to action: Existing initiatives, tools for COP28 Food Systems Transformation Agenda(Video, 2023) CGIAR Climate Change Impact PlatformItem GTH 2023 – Session 4: Everybody's Business: Sorting Out the Five Fs(Video, 2023) Park, Albert; Mukherji, Aditi; Hartman, Ron; Kuria, WangariItem African Food Systems Forum 2023(Video, 2023) Mukherji, AditiItem COP28- Climate-resilient management approaches for flood and drought: Moving from theory to practice (8 December, 13:00–14:30)-Video(Video, 2023) Water for Climate Pavilion