Creating an independent carbon authority might offer a solution for reforming the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme

The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions using a ‘cap and trade’ system, in which levels of emissions are capped, but participants can buy and sell allowances as they require. Godefroy Grosjean and Robert Marschinski note that the system has been undermined due to the price of permits falling drastically since 2008. They provide an overview of some of the potential options available for reforming EU ETS, including the creation of an independent carbon authority analogous to an independent central bank

Measuring adaptation progress across scales and time frames

Presentation on metrics for agriculture adaptation for the Agriculture Committee of the International Platfom for Adaptation Metrics (IPAM

Coupling scientific methodologies and design thinking tools in a hybrid approach

Design thinking initiatives are open-ended and unpredictable: a challenge for AR4D institutions. A project team of the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (ABC) experimented with a hybrid approach, featuring both scientific methodologies and design thinking tools. This Info Note tackles the main lessons learnt from this initiative, such as: • Sequence is key, and large-scale surveys might be wasted is applied too early in the iterative process; • Budget and time need to be invested in staff/ design team training and continuous engagement; • Reflection and communication formats need to be adapted and recognized by all team members; and • Good practice is to embed design thinking initiatives in larger programs that can continue the process

Roadmap for Innovative Finance for Climate Smart Agri-Food Sector in Mali

This report analyizes the constraints and gaps faced by women actors in three key value chains rice, onions and potatos. It reviews the available innovative financing instruments in Mali. It identifies potential investments that can attract private capital for scaling CSA and realize greater impact

Impact of climate variability on internal migration in the Philippines during 2005 – 2010

Climate-migration nexus has been attracting increasing scholarly attention in the last decades. The various manifestations of climate change including extreme events that are expected to get more frequent and more intense, and slow-onset changes that increasingly affect livelihoods in a context of international climate coordination failure add fuel to the fire. Countries in South-East Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change, and future climate scenarios predict increases in multiple indicators, including temperatures (average, minimum and maximum), annual precipitation, number of consecutive too wet and dry days, among others. Understanding how these changes may shape human mobility is key to effective policy design to protect livelihoods and establish migration as a choice rather than necessity. This report contributes to the discourse on climate change and internal migration linkages in the Philippines in three important ways. First, we use data from the latest census available (10% sample from 2010 census) to assess more recent relationships between climate change and migration than found in the robust literature to date. Given the highly dynamic nature of climate-migration nexus, as well as the structural and rural transformation in the country shaping migration, more up to date understanding of these linkages is crucial. Second, we use a large set of climate change indicators selected by a climate variability expert team and capture both extreme and slow-onset events at high spatial and temporal resolution. Third, by conducting analyses at different levels (municipality, migration streams and individual) and applying a livelihoods adaptation framework (controlling for a large set of migration drivers in addition to the climate variables) we identify linkages that can be used as policy entry points at different levels

Gender-Smart Accelerator Challenge Activity Report

This report outlines a Gender-Smart Accelerator Challenge implemented in Senegal in partnership with Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). The goal of the accelerator is to develop a pipeline of women-led agricultural SMEs operating at different levels of the value chain to be matched with private investment. The report outlines the activity design and process to launch the accelerator and the criteria to identify 20 SMEs for the 6 months capacity building program. Through a needs assessment, the SMEs needs were identified and characterized to inform the program curriculum. The end of the program will be marked by a pitch day where the 20 SMEs will compete for a chance to win a grant of up to $25,000 from CGIAR with the potential matching investment from private actors. Potential financing partners have been identified and will play an active role in determining the winners of the challenge

A science-based investment due diligence & screening methodology co-developed with Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) to assess CSA impact in their $20 million agribusiness in Africa window round 2 program

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) identified and prioritized funding to CSA business models with the potential to implement and scale climate mitigation and adaptation practices. Using the AICCRA co-designed improved science-based approach for investment, due diligence and screening, AECF evaluated and recommend cost- effective implementation of CSA practices and monitoring of CSA impact post investment, thus catalyzing further funding into the sector