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Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture Global Webinar: New Zealand Case Study by Victoria Hatton

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The Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture webinar aims to support UNFCCC focal points, agriculture negotiators and other relevant agriculture sector stakeholders to prepare for effective engagement in upcoming Subsidiary Body meetings on advancing the Koronivia joint work on agriculture. This presentation is a country case study of New Zealand by Victoria Hutton.

The Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture webinar aims to support UNFCCC focal points, agriculture negotiators and other relevant agriculture sector stakeholders to prepare for effective engagement in upcoming Subsidiary Body meetings on advancing the Koronivia joint work on agriculture. This presentation is a country case study of New Zealand by Victoria Hutton.

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Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture Global Webinar: New Zealand Case Study by Victoria Hatton

  1. 1. Koronivia Webinar DR. VICTORIA HATTON MINISTRY FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRIES, NEW ZEALAND
  2. 2. The New Zealand Situation
  3. 3. Emissions Intensity by Livestock Category 1990-2014 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 KgCO2eemissionsperkgofmilksolidormeat Dairy Beef Sheep Sheep meat has fallen by 30.5% Beef has fallen by 30.9% Dairy has fallen by 24.5%
  4. 4. (IMAGE model data) Agriculture will be the key source of emissions by 2100. Koronivia decision – what does it mean for NZ?
  5. 5. How can we advance the Koronivia decision? • Seize the momentum • Align rather than duplicate • Don’t lose sight of the basics • Remember its about growing food efficiently • Think about the end goal • Trust and understanding Agriculture is the ‘new kid’ on the block – lets take advantage of this
  6. 6. What hurdles do we need to jump? This is the biggest! Produce more food more efficiently.

Editor's Notes

  • Since 2008, countries have deliberated and negotiated over agriculture issues and they have been close many times but with 1.5 billion poor people living as small holder farmers for whom agriculture is about feeding their family, and providing heat, draught power, clothing, social status, cultural and religious importance these formal negotiations have been politically challenging.

    Countries have found it difficult to find common ground around the need to balance increased food production and food security with reducing climate change impacts.

    The koronivia decision doesn’t necessarily mean this has changed.

    However we are all by now familiar with the statistics that 119 countries identified agriculture a priority sector in their NDC’s But because of the scale of the issues in the agriculture sector, delivering mitigation across the sector won’t be as simple as they are for say the energy or transport sector, where technologies are available and investment structures fairly straight forward.

    Any mitigations for agriculture will need to be cheap and affordable, able to be implemented across a significant number of providers and not compromise food security. For this to succeed, countries need technologies, know-how and practices to be available on farm with investment ready structures.

    The Koronivia decision has the potential to help this process.


  • NZ is considered unique as a developed country with a developing country emissions profile…. One where agriculture emissions dominate the profile – in our case making up 49% of the total emissions.

    But this profile doesn’t tell the real story for NZ as we are not in the position that many developing countries find themselves in – often it just the way the statistics are presented.

    We are a population of only 4 million people but we feed up to 40 million per year so agriculture is a large proportion of our GDP and we have way more land per capita than most countries – we also have many more sheep than people too. Often you can drive for many hours and only see sheep.

    We also have roughly 90% renewable energy. This is a significant contributor to our emissions profile.

  • To share some insights to New Zealand’s agriculture sector:

    New Zealand’s reputation for producing top quality nutritious, meat and milk products is globally recognised.

    Our farm systems have a low carbon footprint due to our efficient pasture-based farming systems and low off-farm emissions. In more intensive overseas production systems there is a greater reliance on feed sourced from off-farm increasing CO2 emissions particularly from fertiliser, harvesting, processing, and transportation.

    Our farmers need to operate within environmental limits. Farmers need to comply with environmental regulation, and meet social and consumer sustainably expectations. Limited mitigation options for biological emissions from agriculture exist and with a lack of subsidies for the agriculture sector, the government role is to support research, provision of new information and promotes development of new technology so farmers can make decisions. Farmer decisions are now largely based on economic rationale within the environmental and social context.

    Within these constraints however, absolute emissions from New Zealand agriculture have grown by only 15 percent between 1990 and 2003 and have remained constant since then. Emissions intensity has declined consistently since 1990. Absolute emissions would have increased by more than 40 percent if it weren’t for these productivity gains.

    NZ believes that this pattern of success can be repeated among many agriculture producers across Africa, Asia and South America.

    The Koronivia decision changes this.
  • This graph really brings home the issues for agriculture. Once countries start to make significant reductions to the energy and transport sectors where mitigation options are cheaper and already at the implementation stage with investment and finance flows ready, agriculture emissions will be the key source of emissions. Geopolitically this could have significant consequences for both producers and purchasers of agriculture products.

    Increasing obligations on ag
    New Zealand is very pleased we reached a decision at COP 23 because the Koronivia joint work on Agriculture enables us to coordinate and consolidate our scientific expertise, our technologies and technological know-how and information on a number of issues related to agriculture that we can make available to all Parties under the convention.

    The initial submissions process will allow us to share our expertise on
    • how to improve soil carbon and fertility,
    • manage nutrients in the system,
    • understand the links between social, economic and food security dimensions,
    • and how to better manage livestock systems.

    We will also be able to use this opportunity to leverage New Zealand’s significant investment of $65m in the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases which has 49 member countries we can reach out to during this process.

    New Zealand has a large domestic research and development programme which has produced a number of useful documents that we can make available and we are considering the most appropriate modalities to maximise the opportunity of the joint work in SBSTA and SBI.

    One issue of acute interest in this whole process is finance or investment – bringing you back to the issue of scale of the agriculture problem. It is our intention to stimulate some discussion through this process on how to better inform investment decisions in the agriculture sector. Public private partnership will be a cornerstone for agricultural mitigation, together with efforts to scale up climate financing to the sector, transforming agricultural research for development, and building capacity.

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  • Seize the momentum

    Align rather than duplicate
    Don’t lose sight of the basics
    Remember its about growing food efficiently
    Think about the end goal
    Trust and understanding


    Trust and understanding…..

    Parties with the help of organisations like the world bank and the UN food and agriculture organisations have worked really hard over the last 12 months to reach a level of trust and common understanding about each other’s views.
    That trust and understanding will pave the way for us to work more successfully together over the next few years on a series of issues linking climate change and agriculture with a focus towards implementation.

    This will ensure there is greater focus on implementing climate action on farm, shifting attention away from merely negotiating scientific and technological advice.

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