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Nature is our life source: providing a stable climate, food and wellbeing. More than $44 trillion of economic value generation (more than half of the world’s total GDP) is dependent on nature (WEF). But right now, nature is not being valued. Because of human activities, vital carbon sinks in our land and our food systems are being destroyed, undermining our ability to adapt to climate change impacts as well as our ability to capture and store carbon. We must protect, manage and restore nature to leverage its unique capacity to provide viable and scalable climate solutions and a more abundant, stable planet.
Nature provides resilience and at least a third of the mitigation and removal opportunity required to achieve a 1.5°C pathway. Key actions, such as shifting to healthy sustainable diets, minimising food loss and waste, regenerative grazing, forestry, and farming, as well as, rapidly restoring and protecting nature, the rights of indigenous peoples, and deploying urban nature at scale, are needed. Every country, city and citizen, every financial institution, company and civil society organisation has a role to play to mitigate over 10Gt of CO2e each year by 2030.
How industry and infrastructure can help
The role of public and private financing
New analysis, commissioned by the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, finds a five-fold increase in companies committed to net-zero from the forest, land and agriculture sectors — the second highest emitting industry after energy.
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Accountability Framework: a common approach for ethical supply chains in agriculture and forestry
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Climate Action Platform - Africa: Nature-based carbon dioxide removal opportunities in Africa
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New portfolio of programs, based on the $500 million committed from the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) Fund for the period 2021-2026 created.
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White House: Biden-Harris Administration Advances Commitment to Create More Equitable Access to Parks and Nature in Communities
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Society for Ecological Restoration: Financing innovative nature-based solutions in cities: how to scale up for the next generation of urban NBS
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Rockefeller Foundation commits US105M to making healthy and sustainable foods more accessible (Press Release)
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UN Food Systems Summit: Action Track 1 - ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all (Videos & Reports)
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Ernst and Young: Protein reimagined: challenges and opportunities in the alternative meat industry (Article)
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WWF, UNEP, EAT and ClimateFocus: Enhancing NDCs for food systems recommendations for decision-makers (Report)
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food: Untapped opportunities for climate action (Report)
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UNSDSN & FOLU: From global commitments to national action: a closer look at NDCs from a food and land perspective (Press Release & Report)
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Protein Industries Canada Playing Matchmaker Between Companies, Researchers, And Funding (Press Release)
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Farming Futures R&D Fund: supporting sustainable farm-based protein in the UK (Government Website)
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food: Untapped opportunities for climate action
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The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C), a 45 country and 200+ NSA coalition has allocated more than $4 billion in agriculture innovation for climate
Tackling forest deforestation related to forest-risk agricultural commodities represents a key opportunity and imperative for the financial sector toward meeting net zero commitments.
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Africa’s long-standing development challenges, compounded by shocks to global supply chains, underscore the urgent need to drive progress and innovation in pivoting Africa’s food system.
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The initiative, with farmers at its heart, will work with over 500 million farmers to apply regenerative production methods and transform agricultural systems, as well as ensure roughly USD $60 billion per year is deployed to finance the transition.
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