Economic and Policy Analysis of Climate Change

AgrInvest training in Uganda: EX-ACT / GLEAM-i Joint Workshop

News - 07.08.2020

The EX-Ante Carbon Balance Tool (EX-ACT) team recently completed delivering a series of ten interactive online trainings to strengthen the Uganda Development Bank’s (UDB) knowledge of agriculture’s environmental impact, as well as the bank’s capacity to assess the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon balance of loan applications. The online workshop was part of the AgrInvest initiative in Uganda and focused on the use of two Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) tools – the Ex-ante Carbon-Balance Tool (EX-ACT) and the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model-interactive (GLEAM-i). The online sessions, which ran from May to August, were geared toward senior UDB staff from key departments like Investment, Credit Risk, Finance and Business Operations, and Strategy and Corporate Affairs. Trainees used real UDB cases to assess the environmental sustainability of previously approved loans, and learned how to refine EX-ACT analyses by using Tier 2 data from the output of GLEAM-i

The full news article can be accessed here: 

http://www.fao.org/support-to-investment/news/detail/en/c/1298227/