INSIGHT: COP28 SPECIAL SERIES - COP28’s pivot to sustainable agriculture encouraging, but

JANUARY 26, 2024 INSIGHT: COP28 SPECIAL SERIES COP28’s pivot to sustainable agriculture encouraging, but long overdue THE TAKEAWAY • The United Arab Emirates’s COP28 presidency, in partnership with the FAO, World Bank, International At the December 2023 UN Framework Convention Fund for Agricultural Development, and the on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 28th Conference of global partnership of internation. [...] multistakeholder-led Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes was also launched by the COP28 IN BRIEF presidency, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Boston Consulting • At COP28, on December 1, 159 parties signed the Group to encourage regenerative practices across the UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient global agricultural supply chain. [...] The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) also IMPLICATIONS released its three-year roadmap to sustainable The focus on agriculture and the multiple agriculture during the conference. [...] The warming climate, sector in scaling up the adoption of “more inclusive, decreasing crop yields, and rising food prices in Asia are resilient and sustainable food systems.” In 2022, expected to push the number of undernourished people Grow Asia launched a C$2.1-million multi-donor on the continent to 330 million by 2030. [...] And while the outcome of the First Global During the same period, Asian economies invested Stocktake — an inventory of states’ efforts to meet about C$2.5 billion in Canada, with the greatest their Paris Agreement obligations — acknowledged the inward investments coming from Japan, China, and role sustainable agriculture has in addressing climate Thailand.