Agriculture's prominence in the INDCs

Analysis of agriculture in countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies finds: Most Parties to the UNFCCC include agriculture in their mitigation targets (80%) and adaptation strategies (64%); Non-annex 1 Parties note the need for international financial support to implement their INDCs and raise the ambition of their contributions; For countries to meet their targets, climate finance will need to address agriculture

How countries plan to address agricultural adaptation and mitigation

Agriculture is well represented in Parties’ adaptation and mitigation strategies as communicated in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). There is much attention to conventional agricultural practices that can be climate-smart (e.g. livestock and crop management), but less to the enabling services that can facilitate uptake (e.g. climate information services, insurance, and credit). Considerable finance is needed for agricultural adaptation and mitigation by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – in the order of USD 3 billion annually for adaptation and 2 billion annually for mitigation. Parties need better information in order to refine their finance needs. Non-Annex 1 Parties raise issues of climate justice, social inequality and food security in their INDCs

How countries plan to address agricultural adaptation and mitigation: An analysis of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. CCAFS dataset

Data presented here are the result of an analysis of the adaptation and mitigation contributions of the 162 INDCs (representing 189 Parties) submitted to the UNFCCC as of 28 April 2016, and then revised using information submitted through 31October 2016. Related Info Notes were written using the data as of 28 April 2016: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/69115 and http://hdl.handle.net/10568/68990 Related Info Notes: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/69115 and http://hdl.handle.net/10568/6899