Climate and Development: The Potential for Climate Co-benefits in the Mozambican Rice Sector

This research paper explores how linking a Sustainable Development – Policies and Measures (SD-PAM) mechanism to rice policies in Mozambique can simultaneously increase production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It argues that for least developed countries, climate mitigation is achieved by changing development paths to avoid future emissions, supported by capacity building and the consideration of contextual factors.

• Increasing rice production in Mozambique can be aligned with the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and a Sustainable Development – Policies and Measures (SD-PAM) mechanism could help support these co-benefits. This suggests that development policies can serve as a precursor for climate mitigation in the agricultural sector and within least developed countries (LDCs).
• The design of a future SD-PAM mechanism in least developed countries (LDCs) is influenced by three specific factors: the impact of contextual factors on individual policy programmes, the necessity for broad capacity building (acting as a leverage mechanism alongside technology transfer, credits, and funding), and the understanding that mitigation in LDCs focuses on avoiding future GHG emissions by altering development paths rather than reducing absolute emissions.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2012). Climate and Development: The Potential for Climate Co-benefits in the Mozambican Rice Sector. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-and-development-the-potential-for-climate-co-benefits-in-the-mozambican-rice-sector/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate and Development: The Potential for Climate Co-benefits in the Mozambican Rice Sector. 2012. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-and-development-the-potential-for-climate-co-benefits-in-the-mozambican-rice-sector/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2012climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate and Development: The Potential for Climate Co-benefits in the Mozambican Rice Sector}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2012}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-and-development-the-potential-for-climate-co-benefits-in-the-mozambican-rice-sector/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }