Impactful and
Measurable Progress
on CSA
in Corporate Value
Chains
Workshop
27-28 March 2018Smarter Metrics Workshop | Burlington 1
Global policy frameworks
and their implications for
metrics
Lini Wollenberg –
CCAFS Low Emissions
Development Flagship Leader
Day 1 | 27 March 2018 hh:mm

WHY GLOBAL FRAMEWORKS MATTER FOR METRICS
1. Set goals and targets
• Paris agreement: 2 °C and 1.5 °C and global
adaptation goal
• SDG 13 goal: Take urgent action to combat climate
change and its impacts
2. Provide consistent methods and standards
• IPCC
• ISO
3. Catalyze progress
• Bonn Challenge
• Champions 12.3
• 4p1000: increase soil carbon by 4/1000

BUT….THERE ARE PROBLEMS
• Mix of science and policy-driven targets, methods, processes, e.g.
- Countries have flexibility over MRV in UNFCCC
- SDG indicators were a politically driven process
• Coarse models and poor data limit estimates
- Calculators, e.g. Ex Act and Cool Farm Tool
- AFOLU sector pathways (RCPs) and science-based targets
• Many institutions: IPCC, UNFCCC, UNCCD, WMO,
GFCS, SDGs, ISO
• Evolving frameworks
- Kyoto Protocol (2005) to Paris Agreement (2015)
- MDGs to SDGs
- Hyogo (2005-2015) to Sendai Framework (2015-2030)
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Science-politics balance and complex institutions

2015 PARIS AGREEMENT
Goals
- 2 °C, with stretch goal of 1.5 °C
- Global Adaptation Goal of enhancing adaptive
capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing
vulnerability to climate change
• Commits countries to
- NDCs, with new NDCs every 5 years
- Global stocktaking – starting in 2018
- Report progress on emissions and NDCs
• Components
- Enhanced Transparency Framework
- Emissions trading
- Loss and Damage
- Technology
Agriculture rose in prominence due to the NDCs
110 countries
98 countries

2017 KORONIVIA JOINT WORK ON AGRICULTURE
2017 COP23 DECISION 4/CP.23
• Opens joint work on Agriculture under SBSTA and SBI: strong signal for parties to implement
agricultural activities
• Developing a road map for 2018-2020 (6 sessions). Will report to COP at end.
• Focuses on, but not limited to:
(a) Modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in-session workshops on issues related to
agriculture and other future topics that may arise from this work;
(b) Methods and approaches for assessing adaptation, adaptation co-benefits and resilience;
(c) Improved soil carbon, soil health and soil fertility under grassland and cropland as well as integrated
systems, including water management;
(d) Improved nutrient use and manure management towards sustainable and resilient agricultural
systems;
(e) Improved livestock management systems;
(f) Socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector

2030 AGENDA: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
GOALS

• Targets lack specificity and
ambition
• Process indicators rather than
outcomes
• Emphasis on adaptation and
finance outcomes only
• Tier III indicators in progress
GOAL 13. TAKE URGENT ACTION TO COMBAT
CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS*
SDG Database:
https://unstats.un.
org/sdgs/indicator
s/database/

SENDAI FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER RISK
REDUCTION 2015-2030
• 15-year non binding agreement
• Four priorities for action and seven targets, 38 indicators to measure global progress
Priorities
• Understanding disaster risk;
• Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk;
• Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience;
• Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to "Build Back Better" in recovery,
rehabilitation and reconstruction.

INITIATIVES FOR AMBITION
AND TRACKING THEIR PROGRESS Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative
Bonn Challenge
Formerly Carbon Disclosure
Project
Lima-
Paris
Action
Agenda

CHAMPIONS 12.3
21 executives, who will:
• Dedicate to meeting Target 12.3
• Lead by example on how to reduce food loss and waste
- Quantify food loss and waste and monitor progress.
• Showcase successes and communicate to peers and media the importance of food loss and
waste reduction
• Advocate for improving the enabling conditions for reducing food loss and waste when
engaging other leaders, for example:
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NON-STATE ACTOR ZONE FOR CLIMATE
ACTION (NAZCA)

WHAT’S NEEDED NEXT?
ALIGNMENT AND BETTER SCIENCE
• Align with NDCs
- Link company targets to countries’ NDCs
- Align project MRV (donors, companies, investors) with national accounting
- Contribute activity data and emission factors to national inventories
• Better science
- Develop and improve consistency of science-based targets
- Ensure robust accounting in initiatives
- Use metrics to make agricultural opportunities more visible: food loss and waste, agroforestry, soil C
• Leadership to make it happen
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THANK YOU!
LINI.WOLLENBERG@UVM.EDU
CCAFS.CGIAR.ORG