Mali

This Technology Transfer Advances Mali's

• Nationally Determined Contribution to give "Priority to develop a smart and resilient agriculture, including through the use of renewable energies".

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK November 4, 2016 – Press release

2016 CTCN Progress Report launched. Developing country trends in climate technology transfer needs presented.

In year 3 of its operations, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) reports that demand for technology transfer in support of achieving countries' national commitments is growing rapidly. 

The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) presents its Progress report (2014- August 2015), which highlights CTCN results in key services (technical assistance, access to information and scaling up international collaboration). 

CTCN is assisting Mali to identify climate adaptation technologies with rural communities.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is seeking a member of the CTCN Network to provide technical services in order to mainstream gender for a climate resilient energy system in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The request for this technical assistance was submitted by 13 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

The Eighth meeting of the CTCN Advisory Board (AB8) took place from August 23-25 at UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark. In its overview of operations, the CTCN’s Director, Mr. Jukka Uosukainen reported that 136 requests for climate technology transfer assistance had been received by the CTCN, and that its Network is now in excess of 225 expert organizations (equally distributed among annex I and non-annex I countries). The Board welcomed the work undertaken to quantify outputs of the technical assistance that has been undertaken thus far.

Mali is committed to promoting a green economy with an emphasis on climate-smart agriculture and renewable energy. Yet current methods of crop conservation often lead to significant waste in the value chain, and weaken farmers' access to markets, reducing their revenues.

The Action Group for Modernisation of Agriculture (GAMA), in Southern Mali aims to improve farming stability in the face of increasing vulnerability of crop production due to climate change. A key piece of their strategy is to use renewable energy source for drying, processing and storage technologies for mangoes, potatoes and gombo. Used at sufficient scale, these technologies increase shelf life and availability of the product to the market, thereby increasing resilience to change and food security.

“Les niveaux des ambitions de reduction des GES du scenario d’atténuation par rapport au scenario de base sont de 29% pour l’agriculture, 31% pour l’énergie et 21% pour les forêts et le changement d’utilisation des terres.” The GHG mitigation scenario’s emission reduction levels, relative to the baseline scenario, are: 29% for agriculture, 31% for energy, and 21% for forests and land-use change.

By Ashley Henyan, Borgen Magazine