Rome – Because the world grapples with the urgency of local weather motion, the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) will spotlight on the upcoming UN Local weather Change Convention COP28 the distinctive potential of agrifood methods because the linchpin for sustainable options.
Director-Common QU Dongyu will lead the FAO delegation on the international occasion, which takes place this yr on the Expo Metropolis Dubai, within the United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 December, and expects the attendance of over 65,000 individuals, together with the member states (of Events) of the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), round 150 world leaders, personal sector, younger individuals, local weather scientists, Indigenous Peoples, journalists and numerous influencing local weather motion advocates similar to Pope Francis and King Charles.
“The local weather and meals crises are inseparable. Investing in agrifood methods and rural areas creates the concrete answer to deal with the impacts of the local weather disaster. At COP28 FAO will systematically spotlight how agrifood methods transformation accelerates local weather motion to the advantage of individuals, prosperity and the planet”, QU mentioned.
Dialogue and negotiations this yr are set to cowl important workstreams, aiming to make substantial progress on key points. One is finalizing the small print of the loss and injury finance facility agreed to be established at COP27 to help weak communities on the forefront of the impacts—together with farmers— in coping with rapid local weather impacts. One other crucial aim is advancing in direction of a international finance goal to assist growing nations of their local weather change mitigation and adaptation efforts. Accelerating each an vitality transition and a simply transition, in addition to addressing the emissions hole, are additionally important areas that will probably be into consideration, amongst others.
COP28 may even see the conclusion of the first-ever international stocktake, a course of finished by nations and stakeholders to guage the place the progress is stagnating (or not) in direction of assembly the objectives of the Paris Settlement. The method will finish with a choice which is predicted to be leveraged to speed up ambition within the subsequent spherical of local weather motion plans (Nationally Decided Contributions) due in 2025 one thing that FAO has been supporting nations with.
FAO will assist its Members throughout these processes, together with discussions on the Sharm el-Sheikh joint work on the implementation of local weather motion on agriculture and meals safety which brings the dialogue of agrifood methods options into the guts of the negotiations.
FAO can be dedicated to help nations with the implementation of agrifood methods options totally aligned with the Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Meals Methods, and Local weather Motion. The Declaration will probably be unveiled in Dubai as a part of the Presidency’s bold agenda on meals and agriculture that will probably be a central characteristic of the World Local weather Motion Summit on 1 December and the Meals, Agriculture and Water Day on 10 December.
COP28 serves as an important platform for collaborative dialogue, data trade, and decision-making concerning the distinctive position of agrifood methods within the battle in opposition to local weather change. Taking in account that the agrifood sector contributes to one-third of greenhouse gasoline emissions, revolutionary options inside agrifood methods contribute on to local weather motion, additionally fostering resilience and adaptation, safeguarding biodiversity, and making certain international meals safety and vitamin—in a world the place round 735 million persons are presently going through starvation.
As a part of its Strategic Framework 2022-31, Local weather Change Technique and Science and Innovation Technique, and respective motion plans, FAO already helps nations to ship options for higher manufacturing, higher vitamin, a greater surroundings and a greater life. Nonetheless, a change of agrifood methods to deal with the local weather disaster can solely be realized by scaling up funding in motion at native, nationwide, and international ranges. A name for a collective effort to scale up investments, embrace revolutionary financing, and implement transformative methods for a climate-resilient future is on the core of FAO’s participation on the worldwide assembly.
FAO may even co-host the Meals and Agriculture Pavilion together with the Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Growth (IFAD), CGIAR and the Rockefeller Basis, main occasions and offering technical recommendation to member nations, each inside and outdoors the official negotiation course of.
Science and innovation will probably be additionally on the heart of agrifood methods options showcased at COP, from solar-powered water irrigation methods to cutting-edge expertise to deal with meals loss and waste, specialists will present how producing extra meals with fewer inputs and fewer environmental injury is a multi-benefit local weather answer.
FAO stories and a International Roadmap
On this context, FAO will launch a collection of stories throughout COP28 and a International Roadmap.
• Pathways in direction of decrease emissions – A worldwide evaluation of the greenhouse gasoline emissions and mitigation choices from livestock agrifood methods
• Loss and Harm in Agrifood Methods − Addressing Gaps and Challenges
• Local weather-related growth finance to agrifood methods—International and regional traits between 2000 and 2021
• International Roadmap: Attaining SDG2 with out breaching the 1.5C threshold
FAO occasions
On the World Local weather Motion Summit, a high-level leaders occasion on agriculture and meals methods will happen on 1 Dec.
On 10 Dec, as designated by the UAE Presidency, COP28 could have a thematic day devoted to meals, agriculture and water with FAO on the forefront of the efforts to focus on agrifood methods options.
Over the convention, there may even be particular bulletins of latest memorandums of understanding (MOU), partnerships and initiatives.
Among the occasions led by or that FAO is supporting embody (all instances on GMT+4 ):
1 December
10:00- 11:00 Local weather Change and Meals Safety: The Function of Nuclear Science and Know-how
13:30-14:15 World Leaders’ Occasion: Remodeling Meals Methods within the face of Local weather Change
17:00-18:00 Loss and Harm in agrifood methods: Addressing gaps and challenges
18:00- 19:00 Implementation of Nairobi declaration on local weather finance and inexperienced development in Africa
2 December
16:45–18:15 Crowdsourcing AI Options for Local weather Change
17:00–18:00 International Leaders Group on AMR high-level facet occasion: Political motion for AMR and surroundings on the highway to the UNGA HLM on AMR in 2024
18:30–20:00 Agrifood Methods Transformation to Obtain Triple Wins: For Folks, for Local weather and for Nature
3 December
11:00–12:00 Scaling up built-in actions to deal with malnutrition and local weather change: an intersectional and intergenerational dialogue
16:00–17:00 From reduction to climate-resilient growth: Decreasing humanitarian wants, defending individuals and planet by scaling up built-in resilience actions within the face of local weather change
15:00- 16:30 Presidency occasion: Meals Disaster Ministerial
18:30–19:30 Strengthening local weather resilience, adaptation and mitigation by way of meals loss and waste discount
10 December ( Meals, Agriculture and Water thematic Day)
09:00- 10:30 Presidency occasion: Excessive-Stage Ministerial dialogue on constructing water-resilient agrifood methods
09:00- 10:30 Presidency occasion: Farmers and Conventional Meals Producers on the Coronary heart of Meals Methods Transformation
11:30-13:30 Presidency occasion: Implementing the Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, resilient meals methods, and local weather motion
14:00-15:00 Presidency occasion: FAST Inception Assembly
A full record of FAO-led or co-led occasions and extra info could be discovered on this devoted webpage.
