The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has underscored the significance of aligning efforts throughout the three Rio Conventions—on local weather change, biodiversity and desertification.
This was a part of the insights shared from the latest Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) COP29 negotiations, highlighting key developments and ongoing challenges in local weather motion.
WWF famous that though discussions on meals and agriculture have been restricted, some optimistic outcomes emerged. Notably, greater than 30 nations signed the Decreasing Methane from Natural Waste Declaration, which focuses on integrating methane discount targets into future Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs).
As focus turns to the upcoming the United Nations Conference to Fight Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 in Riyadh, WWF mentioned the built-in strategy is important for creating options that profit each folks and nature.
The WWF’s alignment paper, launched at the beginning of the tri-COP interval, outlines important actions wanted to boost meals methods resilience, scale back agricultural emissions, promote nature-positive meals manufacturing, and safe financing for meals methods transformation.
“WWF is actively engaged on meals methods transformation in nations and locations all over the world and is able to assist translate built-in commitments made at COPs into motion on the bottom and within the water. We are able to assist stakeholders throughout meals methods in all elements of the world in quite a few methods.
“The Nice Meals Puzzle is a brand new strategy to figuring out and accelerating implementation of the highest-impact meals methods options in several nations everywhere in the world. Place-based options are key to remodeling meals methods – the complicated community of actions that entails the manufacturing, processing, transportation, and consumption of meals – and unlocking their world potential to revive biodiversity, restrict local weather change and supply everybody with sufficient wholesome and nutritious meals.”
WWF mentioned, “as a result of nations have distinctive meals cultures and bodily environments, there isn’t one factor that everybody ought to do. However there are teams of nations that may apply comparable options to ship the most important affect within the shortest time.”
The Fund famous that within the first world examine of its sort, it analysed greater than 100 nations and categorized them into six completely different Meals System Sorts, based mostly on their environmental and socioeconomic traits, and ranked the highest-impact actions in every.
“The inclusion of environmental elements units the examine other than different meals system typologies. It’s important they’re thought-about, given meals methods’ widespread affect on nature and complete dependence on a functioning pure world. There are many examples of how among the highest-potential options are already being carried out.
“Scaling these within the acceptable locations can result in a speedy transformation of worldwide meals methods. The interactive device contains greater than 50 success tales of how nations in all elements of the world are making use of high-impact options.”
