Call4Climate. Action Plan on Climate Change - Madagascar aims "major mitigation actions" by 2030

The Republic of Madagascar submitted its Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC) at the website of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on September 24. Focus on "mitigation" part.

In the "mitigation" part, the document states that “the national contribution of the Republic of Madagascar is the result of mitigation measures targeted to relevant sectors, compared to the national reference scenario BAU "business as usual". In 2030, Madagascar aims to reduce approximately 30 MtCO2 of its emissions of GHG, representing 14% of national emissions, compared to the BAU scenario, with projections based of GHG inventory from year 2000 to 2010. This reduction is additive to the 2 absorptions increase of the LULUCF sector, which estimated at 61 MtCO2 in 2030.”

Four main areas

The "major actions" identified by the Malagasy State to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases cover four main areas: energy, agriculture, waste recycling, and the development of carbon stocks through sustainable management of the Land Use, Change of assignment of land and forestry (LULUCF). In the energy sector, it is noted the development of renewable energy, including increasing the contribution of hydropower and solar to 79% (currently 35%), and the adoption of improved stoves by 50% households in 2030. In the field of agriculture, the Malagasy State envisages a large dissemination of intensive/improved rice farming techniques (SRI/SRA), a large scale implementation of conservation agriculture and climate-smart agriculture, and the dissemination of arboriculture (5000 ha per year from 2018). The biogas production from waste water and the sustainable management (compost) of 50% of household organic waste are planned actions for waste recycling. Finally, actions under LULUCF include large scale reforestation for sustainable timber production and indigenous species for conservation, reduction of forest timber extraction, promotion of Redd-plus, large scale adoption of agroforestry, and forest and grassland forests enhanced monitoring.

Achievable actions

Besides the targets in the areas of energy and waste recycling, most goals are actions that have already been initiated in small or medium-scale in the country. In other words, all these actions are achievable but their effective implementation remains a mystery. Indeed, the document submitted states that "these objectives remain conditioned by financial support, which will be received from global partners (conditional contributions)." Estimating mitigation costs amounted to more than 6 billion Usd, the document adds: “If nothing is done, Madagascar’s total emissions will increase from ca. 87 MtCO2 in the year 2000 to reach 214 MtCO2 in 2030.”

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Read the original version in French on: http://www.matin.mg/?p=14906