Researchers from the Global Green Growth Institute visited the Faculty of Agriculture at the National University of Laos’ Nabong Campus on 2 July, according to GGGI, as part of technical groundwork under the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation for Methane Mitigation (AKCMM) project. The trip was meant to feed feasibility work already underway on cutting methane from Lao PDR’s agriculture sector, one of several ASEAN countries where AKCMM is scouting practical, scalable emission-reduction options.
Two candidate interventions have been shortlisted for deeper assessment since the project’s first Project Management Committee meeting: Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) for paddy rice cultivation, and Emission Control Blocks (ECB) for livestock. During the campus visit, GGGI staff toured crop-science and animal-science research facilities and laboratories and compared notes with university researchers to gauge what technical capacity and existing data could support the AWD and ECB studies.
GGGI frames the visit as an information-gathering step rather than a project milestone — the findings will feed into ongoing feasibility studies and shape how methane-mitigation measures are eventually designed and scaled in the country. The project is being carried out with Lao PDR’s Department of Environment under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.
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- AWD and ECB are both established methane-abatement practices used in voluntary and compliance carbon crediting for rice and livestock respectively, though this GGGI-NUOL engagement is described here strictly as pre-crediting feasibility research, not a registered project.
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