Ahead of COP29, this updated toolkit aims to reflect additional guidance, tools and case studies for enhancing and implementing NDCs, NAPs, and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) serving as a resource for national policymakers and decisionmakers aiming to align and accelerate national efforts on climate and biodiversity action and agriculture and food system transformation by providing:
- a summary of priority actions based on existing efforts that governments should consider in raising the ambition of their NDCs, NAPs, and NBSAPs through agriculture and food system measures;
- overviews of good examples of NDCs, NAPs, and NBSAPs in their integration of agriculture and food system measures and of projects and programs in agriculture and food systems that support the implementation of NDCs, NAPs, and NBSAPs; and
- an overview of existing initiatives, platforms, and tools that can help governments in developing and implementing agriculture and food system policy measures as part of their NDCs, NAPs, and NBSAPs.
By equipping state actors and other key stakeholders with a useful set of knowledge assets, the toolkit specifically aims to support countries to:
- strengthen integration and alignment of national strategies for climate and biodiversity action and food system transformation, including between NDCs, NAPs, NBSAPs, and national food system transformation pathways;
- enhance the integration of food and agriculture system transformation in NDC implementation and revision processes in 2025 and 2030;
- improve the integration of food and agriculture system transformation in NAP formulation and implementation processes, including considerations of NAP progress in 2025; and
- ensure the integration of food and agriculture system transformation in NBSAP revision and implementation processes under the KMGBF.
Given this scope, the toolkit will support implementation of first Global Stocktake outcome under the Paris Agreement, implementation of the Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work on Implementation of Climate Action on Agriculture and Food Security adopted at COP27 (Decision 3/CP.27) and the Emirates Declaration on Resilient Food Systems, Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Action adopted at COP28 in the UAE. Additionally, the updated toolkit can help countries to progress towards the targets of the KMGBF both globally and at the national level, especially Target 10 on enhancing biodiversity and sustainability in agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry.
This updated toolkit follows the COP28 Agriculture, Food and Climate National Action Toolkit.