Dairy Cattle Health and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Pilot Study : Chile , Kenya and the UK

This pilot study was undertaken for the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Global Dairy Platform. It sets out practical methods for establishing GHG emissions, what magnitudes of reduction may be expected with defined animal health improvement measures (AHIM) in dairy cattle health and how these may be applied in national reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and the necessary Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) required to achieve such. The study applied the same methodology to the dairy sectors of Chile, Kenya and the United Kingdom (UK), based on assumptions and modelling initially applied in the UK and considers some economic case scenarios in each country; exploring the cost benefit of the applied AHIMs to individual farmers to drive adoption.