{"id":19159,"date":"2018-12-10T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:08:15","slug":"momentum-builds-for-agriculture-at-cop-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2018\/12\/10\/momentum-builds-for-agriculture-at-cop-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum Builds for Agriculture at COP 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plenary at COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. Flickr\/ UNclimatechange<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Agriculture negotiators arrived in Katowice, Poland eager to get to work on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) during COP 24. The KJWA is a UNFCCC initiative directing the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to jointly consider how to tackle agriculture issues in the context of climate change.<\/p>\n

Following the creation of the KJWA roadmap during the May 2018 intersessional in Bonn\u2014which laid out<\/a> an agenda of workshops, topic submissions, and workshop reports every six months between the 2018 intersessional and the end of 2020\u2014negotiators agreed to continue their joint work on addressing issues related to agriculture, beginning with the first in-session workshop during COP 24 in Katowice. Over the course of the first week of the COP, it became clear that the negotiators were determined to keep the momentum going.<\/p>\n

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The first item on the agenda: negotiators discussed the modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in-session workshops on issues related to agriculture and other future topics, such as exploring potential synergies and ways to support advanced agriculture practices and technology, which may arise from this work.<\/p>\n

During this workshop, the constituted bodies (CBs)\u2014bodies of the UNFCCC that provide technical input and expertise to advance the implementation of the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement\u2014provided an overview of their work and how it could further the objectives of the KJWA. The Adaptation Committee, for example, agreed that, although its mandate is to provide technical advice to all, there is a need to bridge the gap between the general and the specific. Another CB, the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, discussed how it is carrying out its mandate through providing guidelines for National Adaptation Plans, training, and sector-specific supporting materials.<\/p>\n

From the interventions of Parties and observers, like the coalition of land use experts that EDF is a part of and the North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (NACSAA), it became clear that:<\/p>\n