Sixth Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Cooperative MRV Hub
15 April 2025
The New Zealand Climate Smart Agriculture (NZCSA) initiative- Latin America and the Caribbean representatives, Nicolas Costa and Lee Nelson attended the sixth Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Cooperative Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (CCMRV) Hub in Grenada between 2 and 5 April 2025. The CCMRV Hub staff will be working with Dr Andrea Pickering from the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) staff to deliver the project.
The CCMRV Hub is a regional institution that supports member countries to improve Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems, and build their Paris Agreement reporting capabilities, while enhancing evidence-based policymaking. The Paris Agreement mandates countries to submit Biennial Transparency Reports that require comprehensive climate MRV systems. MRV system development is additionally challenging for small Caribbean nations because systems for climate change transparency are prone to economies of scale.
Through the NZCSA, New Zealand is supporting the establishment and training of the CCMRV Hub’s new Agriculture Work Crew. This project will build agriculture-related GHG inventory and MRV capacity in the Caribbean by supporting individuals within agriculture ministries as technical inventory specialists. The project will also develop a regional agricultural GHG inventory community of practice across the Caribbean and with Specialists in New Zealand and globally.
At the Annual Meeting, the NZCSA representatives interacted with GHG inventory specialists from across the Caribbean. They presented the new Agriculture Work Crew initiative to attendees at the meeting - representing other Work Crews including Stationary Energy, Transport, etc. They met CCMRV Hub staff, learnt about the future needs of the region and set out New Zealand’s proposal supporting an Agriculture Work Crew and Community of Practice for the Caribbean. Key objectives for the Agriculture Work Crew, implementation plans and timelines ahead of the launch in mid-June 2025 were discussed.
Caribbean Cooperative MRV Hub staff with representatives from NZCSA initiative
New Zealand is supporting the Agriculture Work Crew to build institutional capacity and capability to compile, manage, and report a robust agricultural GHG inventory, that can progress to using higher Tier methodologies for key agricultural emission sources. The project will strengthen countries understanding of the requirements needed to develop and implement country specific agricultural GHG emissions data in their reporting.
The project is funded through the New Zealand Government’s Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative, as part of its contribution to the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).