COP28: Financing Climate Resilient Food Systems for achieving NDCs and NAP targets - options for implementing the Commonwealth Living Lands Charter
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Co-organized by: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Samoa, Lesotho, CBD, UNCCD.
Climate and food systems are interlinked: on the one hand, climate-related extreme weather events and disasters are a major threat to the stability of global, national, and local food systems – the entire food supply chain and food environment are affected, with negative consequences on sustainability outcomes, especially people’s nutrition, food security and health. On the other hand, unsustainable practices in food systems cause deforestation and environmental degradation, thereby exacerbating climate change and its impacts which particularly affect women and young people. This link has increasingly been recognised through various efforts such as the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and more recently in the UNFCCC through the Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA) in which a Food Systems Pillar has been identified. The COP28 Presidency has also included Food, Agriculture and Water as a theme within the COP programme setting the stage for a deeper discussion of the key issues related to food systems and climate including financing. This event will feature a high-level section with Heads of relevant organisations and a technical section with discussants drawn from the UNFCCC led Climate Resilient Food Alliance (CRFS), UNCCD, CBD and youth representatives from across the Commonwealth. The event will showcase efforts to harness climate finance for transforming and integrating climate resilience into food systems, NDCs and NAPs from examples in Commonwealth countries of Lesotho and Samoa through the Commonwealth Living Lands Charter initiative. The Commonwealth Living Lands Charter- A Call for Action on Living Lands is an agreement among the countries of the Commonwealth to integrate action to tackle the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation and including climate resilient agriculture for food security.
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