SECAC Project
Timeframe
July 2024 to June 2026
Countries
Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and El Salvador.
The Project
New Zealand is supporting a regional initiative with SECAC and IICA to strengthen greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories in the agricultural sector of the SICA region. The project brings together agricultural experts, policymakers, and climate scientists from across Central America to improve transparency and consistency in emissions reporting, ensuring inventories can inform both national policy and international climate negotiations.
The initiative builds technical capacity through training and knowledge exchange, helping countries adopt IPCC Tier 2 methodologies for key emission categories. It also promotes regional collaboration and peer learning, enabling countries to identify and prioritize mitigation options and move toward more accurate, country-led inventories that support climate commitments.
By investing in local expertise and institutional memory, New Zealand is helping SICA nations transition from reliance on external consultants to self-sufficient climate leadership. This work supports resilient, low-emission agriculture and strengthens the region’s ability to adapt to climate change while safeguarding food security.
Reports
GHG Capability Roadmap
Implementation Partners
Costa Rica workshop brought together 11 technical specialists from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. Participants engage in theoretical, practical, and collaborative sessions focused on applying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for estimating agricultural emissions (Oct 2025)
First Workshop on "Strengthening the Quantification of GEI Emissions from the Agricultural Sector in the #RegiónSICA". (Panama, July 2025)
“The collaboration with the GHG Research Center in New Zealand and the global research alliance positions us at the methodological vanguard. This transfer of expertise should generate permanent capacities that last beyond the project," -Minister Linares of Panama at the opening meeting of the SECAC Project in Panama (Jul 2025)