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Partnerships for Data-

Enabled Climate

Solutions

Geneva, October 2018

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Panel discussion

11:00 - 11:45

Group discussion

11:45 - 12:30

Today’s Mini workshop agenda

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Mini Workshop - Partnerships for Data-Enabled Climate Solutions (DECS):

Using weather and climate information to strengthen resilience for

smallholders and corporate value chains

Moderator: Mr. Tony Siantonas, Climate Smart Agriculture, World

Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Speakers:

• Mr. Peter Gibbs FRMetS, Broadcaster and Advisor to Opus Insights

• Mr. Dhanush Dinesh, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,

Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

• Ms. Veronika Neumeier, Climate Policy, WBCSD

Today’s speakers

Today’s objective

• How data can be best used to maximize the adaptation of farmers

and the agri-food sector to climate change;

• Role of private, public, civil society and research sectors in

partnering effectively to manage this data;

• The key challenges and opportunities identified in this context to be

fed into UNFCCC events and workstreams.

CSA Project member ambition by 2030

Strengthen climate resilience of landscapes and farmers

• Agro-ecological approaches for all scales of farming

• Sustainable rural livelihoods• Technology, knowledge, equality

Make 50% more nutritious, safe food available

• Incr. productivity of existing land• Restoring degraded land• Halving food losses (farm to shelf)

Reduce commercial ag. GHG emissions by 50% by 20301

• Zero deforestation and land conversion

• Landscape carbon sequestration• Halving food loss (farm to shelf)

2010 baseline, with 2050 target to achieve a 65% emissions reduction; It is expected that total land use mitigation accounts for 57% of reductions, and that food loss and waste actions (from field to shelf) account for 43% of reductions

2. RESILIENCE1. PRODUCTIVITY 3. MITIGATION

CSA Focus regionsCSA Action Areas

4. Zero deforestation and landscapes

2. Scaling up investment

1. Smallholder Resilience

3. Monitoring performance Brazil

North AmericaIndia

Ghana & West Africa

ASEAN

Food Loss & Waste*

Meeting our ambition Priority Action Areas

*CSA plays a coordination role In partnership with WBCSD’s FReSH and GAA Project teams

India• Water smart practices• Sugarcane, cotton, staples• 140,000 smallholders

West Africa (Ghana)• Data-led climate solutions• Cocoa and staple crops• 500,000 farmers targeted

Brazil• Tackling deforestation• Focus on Cerrado• Climate financing• Smallholder resilience

North America • CSA Metrics and SBTs• Soil health and carbon• Precision, FinTech and

“Farm of 2030”

ASEAN• Sustainable rice • Landscape fires• Smallholder finance

Two scoping regions• Colombia• Ethiopia

CSA regions Progress summary

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Short Presentations

11:00 - 11:45

Panel presentations

• Mr. Peter Gibbs FRMetS,

Broadcaster and Advisor to Opus

Insights

• Mr. Dhanush Dinesh, CGIAR

Research Program on Climate

Change, Agriculture and Food

Security (CCAFS)

Peter Gibbs, FRMetS

Dhanush Dinesh, CCAFS

Key question: What are your priorities for addressing how climate data

can be used to enhance resilience?

Session close:

• Ms. Veronika Neumeier, Climate Policy, WBCSD

Group discussion (11:45 – 12:30)

Group discussion and feedback

What are the main areas/ models/

approaches where you believe

collaboration on climate and data

can help to build resilience at

scale?

What support/outputs would you like to

see in 2019 to support this work?

Private sector role

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Next steps

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Questions?

Tony Siantonas, Regional Manager, Climate Smart Agriculture, WBCSD

siantonas@wbcsd.org

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