Today, on July 6, the management of the SI “Derzhgruntokhorona” took part in a meeting of the working group on adaptation of the agricultural sector to climate change under the chairmanship of the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy Denys Bashlyk.
The following were considered and discussed at the meeting:
– basic documents and approaches for solving issues of adaptation of the agricultural sector to climate change;
– impact of agriculture on climate change and technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
– Strategy for the adaptation of Ukrainian agriculture to climate change (prepared in 2019) with proposals for positions that need to be revised taking into account the current challenges of rural areas.
There was also a presentation of the project of methodological recommendations for assessing the risks and vulnerability of socio-economic sectors and natural components to climate change.
Members of the working group provided suggestions on the procedure for conducting an analysis of risk assessment and vulnerability of agriculture to climate change.