Contributing to this objective was the purpose of a workshop recently held by the CBIT-AFOLU project, implemented by the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, with technical assistance from FAO and financing from the Global Environment Fund (GEF).
A statement from the Office of that UN body in Cuba, referred to the assistance it provides in strengthening technical capacities to evaluate and report on the emissions and removals of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the agriculture, forestry and other sectors. land uses (AFOLU).
The meeting (from 8 to 12 of this month), allowed the exchange of knowledge and experiences among Cuban experts, to advance towards an improvement of the National Inventory of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), the text also indicates.
It also indicates that the foregoing will contribute to increasing completeness, accuracy and comparability, in relation to the requirements established by the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement.
In this sense, the methodologies used to calculate the estimates of emissions and removals of Greenhouse Gases were addressed in the workshop, according to the 2006 guidelines of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC) in the AFOLU sector.
Teachers from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Pollution Center of the Meteorology Institute, responsible for preparing the inventory, and specialists from the Training Center of the Livestock Business Group, the Soil Institute and the Agroforestry Research Institute participated in this process.
The national coordinator of the CBIT-AFOLU project, Janet Blanco, referred to the problem of information gaps in the National Inventory of Greenhouse Gases. He emphasized the need to work from scientific institutions in the identification of data and factors that influence the emission of these gases in Cuban agriculture.
Blanco also said that the training in the framework of the project will make it possible to advance in the formation of sector teams in the country, which will work on improvements to the national inventory.
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