Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

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EX-ACT Tool by the FAO

"The Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT, previously EX-Ante Carbon balance Tool), provides users a consistent way of estimating and tracking the outcomes of agricultural interventions on GHG emissions." Users can create an account and try it out here: https://exact.apps.fao.org/.

Data

Context

• Country
• Climate type
• Moisture
• Project duration, implementation phase
  Users can also choose the method with which emissions are calculated (AR4, AR5, AR6 reports)

Actions

There are many different categories of actions that can be taken. Each action module has several components within it.

• Afforestation and forest management
• Flooded rice management
• Perennial cropland and agroforestry management
• Annual cropland management
• Coastal wetland management
• Infrastructure or settlement creation
• Set land aside
• Other land
• Livestock management
• Water body management
• Marine and inland fisheries
• Aquaculture
• Use of agricultural inputs, energy or irrigation
• Downstream value chain intervention
• Grassland management

Outcomes

Outcomes are computed for each action taken as well as aggregated into a comprehensive result

• Total GHG fluxes (tonnes of CO2 equivalent)
  • With and without intervention, many actions have fields such as "what would have happened if you didn't take this intervention"
• Carbon balance by specific GHG (CH4, N2O, CO2, Other)
• Mitigation cost

Furthermore, other cost outcomes can be computed directly from the actions taken.