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Livestock emissions and the COP26 targets

TOPIC 2022

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are among the greatest challenges faced by livestock farming that has become an issue of the greatest importance for consumers and policy makers. At the same time, livestock has a strong mitigation potential: “improved management practices could reduce emissions from livestock systems by about 30%”, says FAO.

Several reports have been recently published among international organisations (IPCC, FAO, DG Agri…) that may lead to decision making in the coming months with impacts on the livestock sector.

The ATF would like to draw a state of the art on GHG emissions from livestock, the role of methane, the different metrics to measure emissions and mitigation levers at various scales, inviting international organisations, research organisations, farmers, industries, NGOs and policy makers.

2 events were organised in 2022 to discuss this topic:

the 2^nd one-day symposium of the ATF and the EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems (05 September 2022, Porto, Portugal)
the 12^th ATF seminar (17 November 2022 - Brussels, Belgium)

Both events aim to contribute to:

Address how research and innovation can support the livestock sector: needs in R&I to help the livestock sector to adapt to climate change and mitigate its emissions;
Provide input to European research and innovation agendas and to public policies to secure Europe’s role as a leading global provider of safe and healthy animal-derived products;
Engage a dialogue with various stakeholders;
Foster ownership by farmers.

2nd ATF-LFS one-day symposium

Since 2013, the ATF-EAAP Special Session during the EAAP Annual Meeting aims to bring together animal science with practice of animal production and connect researchers, policy makers, industry representatives and societal organisations. Every year, a different topic is addressed during this session.
In 2021, the EAAP Livestock Farming Systems Study Commission and the ATF Special Session have joined into a one-day symposium. In 2022, they have decided to continue the collaboration.

The outcomes of the session were discussed with a large panel of European stakeholders during the 12^th ATF seminar, in Brussels, on 17 November 2022.

Monday 05 September 2022

EAAP2022 - Porto, Portugal

8:30	Welcome & introduction By Frank O'Mara, ATF President - @FrankOMara8 & Michael Lee, President of the EAAP LFS Study Commission
State of policies and research about climate impacts from livestock, metrics & mitigation options
8:45	IPCC AR6 Working Group III report: overview of agricultural sector GHG emissions By Harry Clark, NZAGRC - @nzagrc
9:15	FAO report: Technical Advisory Group on Methane emissions from the livestock systems and Working group on metrics By John Lynch, Oxford University - @UniofOxford
9:45	EU policy tools to decrease emissions from the livestock sector By Valeria Forlin, DG Clima, Unit C3: Low Carbon Solutions (III): Land Economy & Carbon Removals - @EUClimateAction And Andreas Pilzecker, DG Agri, Unit B2 - Environmental sustainability - @EUAgri
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Green House Gases GRA-GHG By Hayden Montgomery, Special Representative of the GRA - @GRA_GHG
11:00	Production profiles and GHG emissions – pilot study on farm practices towards circular bioeconomy By Dana Peškovičová, NPPC
11:15	Territorial-scale trade-offs of livestock performance: cattle diet composition perspective By Ruizhen Wang, INRAE - @INRAE_France
11:30	State of the art in Research and Innovation – Nutrition and supplements By John Newbold & Jamie Newbold, SRUC - @SRUC
12:00	Research and innovation for climate change mitigation from an animal breeding perspective By Oscar Gónzález Recio, INIA-CSIC - @INIA_es
12:15	State of the art in Research and Innovation – Manure management By Henrique Trindade, UTAD - @UTAD_RS & David Fangueiro, ISA - @isagronomia
12:30	PANEL DISCUSSION with the speakers of the last 2 presentations, the audience and David Yañez-Ruiz, CSIC with a 5-minute presentation of “Relivestock” - @EEZCSIC Ana Granados, EFFAB/FABRE TP: Review of research in genetics from the WCGALP2022, World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production Michael Lee, Harper Adams University as representative from BSAS2022, British society of Animal Science Conference - @HarperAdamsUni @BSAS_org Nicolas DiLorenzo, University of Florida, as representative from GGAA2022, International Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture Conference Moderation by Tommy Boland, EAAP LFS Study Commission and Ana Sofia Santos/Ana Granados, ATF Vice-presidents
13:00	Lunch

GHG emissions mitigation in practice
14:00	At farm gate: feed systems, increased soil carbon sequestration and energy production By Anne-Catherine Dalcq, CEJA - @_CEJA_
14:15	Breeding towards efficiency in Finnish dairy and beef cattle improves environmental performance By Sanna Hietala, LUKE - @LukeFinlandInt
14:30	GHG emissions mitigation in practice: a Dutch farmer with monogastrics & ruminants By Iwan Gijsbers, ZLTO - @ZLTO
14:45	Vision industry: Danone & its project that aims to support French dairy farmers in their Carbon footprint reduction By Maëline Baudet, Danone - @DanoneFR
15:00	PANEL DISCUSSION with speakers and the audience White spots? Gaps in R&I Moderation by Tommy Boland, EAAP LFS Study Commission and Ana Sofia Santos/Ana Granados, ATF Vice-presidents
15:45	Coffee break
16:15	State of implementation of good practices in various EU projects By Josselin Andurand, IDELE - @InstitutElevage
16:30	Time off feed affects enteric methane and rumen archaea By Stuart Kirwan, Teagasc - @teagasc
16:45	Alentejo’s beef farms economic and environmental performance through a regionally developed decision By Manuel Dos Santos, Técnico Lisboa - @istecnico
17:00	Phytochemical and in vitro methane inhibition of plant extracts as influenced by extractive solvents By Abubeker Hassen, University of Pretoria - @UPTuks
17:15	Considerations from modelling UK livestock farming: How farmers can reduce emissions By Harry Kamilaris, CIEL - @CIELivestock1
17:30	Closing By Frank O'Mara, ATF President - @FrankOMara8 & Michael Lee, President of the EAAP LFS Study Commission

ATF-EAAP LFS one-day symposium (Sept.2022)

	Title
	Welcome & introduction. By F. O'Mara, ATF / Teagasc & M. Lee, EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems / Harper Adams University
	IPCC AR6 Working Group III report: overview of agricultural sector GHG emissions. By H. Clark, NZAGRC
	FAO report: Technical Advisory Group on methane emissions - Methane emissions in agriculture and discussion of metrics. By J. Lynch, Oxford University
	EU policy tools to decrease emissions from the livestock sector. By V. Forlin - DG Clima & A. Pilzecker - DG Agri, European Commission
	Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Green House Gases GRA-GHG. By H. Montgomery, GRA
	Production profiles and GHG emissions – pilot study on farm practices towards circular bioeconomy. By M. Záhradník, NPPC
	Territorial-scale trade-offs of livestock performance: cattle diet composition perspective By R. Wang, INRAE
	State of the art in Research and Innovation – Nutrition and supplements. By John & Jamie Newbold, SRUC
	Research and innovation for climate change mitigation from an animal breeding perspective. By O. Gónzález Recio, INIA-CSIC
	State of the art in Research and Innovation – Manure management. By H. Trindade, UTAD & D. Fangueiro, ISA
	Relivestock. By D. Yañez-Ruiz, CSIC
	Review of research in genetics from the 2022 World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. By A. Granados, EFFAB
	2022 British society of Animal Science Conference. By M. Lee, Harper Adams University / BSAS
	2022 International Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture Conference. By N. DiLorenzo, University of Florida
	GHG emissions mitigation in practice - at farm gate: feed systems, increased soil carbon sequestration and energy production. By A-C. Dalcq, CEJA
	Breeding towards efficiency in Finnish dairy and beef cattle improves environmental performance. By S. Hietala, LUKE
	GHG emissions mitigation in practice: a Dutch farmer with monogastrics & ruminants. By I. Gijsbers, ZLTO
	Vision industry: Danone & its project that aims to support French dairy farmers in their Carbon footprint reduction. By M. Baudet, Danone
	State of implementation of good practices in various EU projects. By J. Andurand, IDELE
	Time off feed affects enteric methane and rumen archaea. By S. Kirwan, Teagasc
	Alentejo’s beef farms economic and environmental performance through a regionally developed decision. By M. Dos Santos, Técnico Lisboa
	Phytochemical and in vitro methane inhibition of plant extracts as influenced by extractive solvents. By A. Hassen, University of Pretoria
	Considerations from modelling UK livestock farming: How farmers can reduce emissions. By H. Kamilaris, CIEL
	Report of the 2nd symposium of the ATF and EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems

12th ATF seminar

The ATF seminar would like to engage discussion with farmers, industries, scientists, policy makers and with the society.

It is a follow up of the one-day Symposium of the ATF & Livestock Farming Systems Study Commission, EAAP Annual Meeting in Portugal on September 05^th, 2022

Thursday 17 November 2022

Programme

9:00	Welcome & introduction By Frank O'Mara, ATF President - @FrankOMara8
9:05	Outcomes of the ATF-EAAP LFS Symposium, September 5^th, 2022: Important messages & gaps in the discussion By Frank O’Mara, ATF President - @FrankOMara8 & Michael Lee, President of the EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems - @HarperAdamsUni - @EAAPofficial
9:20	Public policies: vision policy maker By Colm Markey, Member of the European Parliament - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development - @ColmMarkey
Policies and research: where do we stand?
9:40	EU policy tools to decrease emissions from the livestock sector By Valeria Forlin, DG Clima, Unit C3: Low Carbon Solutions (III): Land Economy & Carbon Removals - @EUClimateAction
10:00	Taking another look at methane By Michelle Cain, Cranfield Environment Centre - @CranfieldUni
10:20	Reduction and mitigation measures for livestock By John Roche, Chief Science Adviser at New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Director of MPI On-Farm Support Services - @MPI_NZ
10:40	Coffee break
Strategies in practice: input from the field
11:00	Animals genetics By Nicolas Gengler, Universty of Liège - @nicogengler - @UniversiteLiege
11:15	Feed additives By Sinéad Waters, Teagasc & Livestock Research Group of the GRA - @SineadMWaters
11:30	Farming practices By Thomas Duffy, CEJA - @TaeSavesLives - @_CEJA_
11:45	Dairy industry: use of an additive to reduce enteric methane By Simon Bonnet, BEL Group - @belcorporate
12:00	PANEL DISCUSSION with John Roche, MPI - @MPI_NZ Michelle Cain, Cranfield Environment Centre - @CranfieldUni Wolfgang Burtscher, European Commission - Director General DG AGRI - @EUAgri Pablo Manzano, Basque Centre for Climate Change - @BC3Research And the audience. Moderation by Ana Sofia Santos - @SofiaSantosAna & Ana Granados - @AnaGranadosChap, ATF Vice-presidents
13:00	Closing and lunch By Frank O'Mara, ATF President - @FrankOMara8

Videos of the 12^th ATF seminar are available here.

12th ATF seminar (Nov.2022)

	Title
	Outcomes of the ATF-EAAP LFS symposium (Sept.5th, 2022): Important messages. By M. Lee, EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems
	Public policies: vision policy maker. By C. Markey, Member of the European Parliament - AGRI Committee (no presentation)
	EU policy tools to decrease emissions from the livestock sector. By V. Forlin, DG Clima, Unit C3
	Taking another look at methane. By M. Cain, Cranfield Environment Centre
	Reduction and mitigation measures in New Zealand's livestock sector. By J. Roche, MPI On-Farm Support Services
	Strategies in practice: input from the field - Animal genetics. By N. Gengler, University of Liège
	Evaluation and development of feed additives to reduce methane emissions from ruminants. By S. Waters, Teagasc & Livestock Research Group of the GRA
	Accelerating the uptake of GHG reduction measures - The Youth Dimension. By T. Duffy, CEJA
	Dairy industry: use of an additive to reduce enteric methane. By S. Bonnet, BEL Group
	Report of the 12th ATF Seminar
	ATF Policy Brief: "Agricultural methane - Assessing its significance and seeking solutions" (July 2023)

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