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Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas raise their voice in unison at COP 28, warning that the sector must be guaranteed effective access to climate financing
Meeting in the United Arab Emirates, where the world’s major environmental negotiating forum is underway, the ministers of Agriculture of the Americas warned that smoother and faster access to funds for climate financing must be guaranteed, to enable the sector to make a greater contribution to resolving the global environmental crisis.
At COP28, Caribbean countries highlight the correlation between combating climate change and their determination to reduce food imports by 25% in two years
Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines explained that climate negotiations are also part of the Caribbean region’s strategy to increase sustainability and food security.
At COP28, farmers demonstrate their resilience and ability to contribute to international efforts to tackle, mitigate and adapt to climate change
Farmers have demonstrated this and reinforced the leading role of agriculture at COP28 – the supreme negotiating and discussion forum on the present and future of global efforts to tackle climate change. COP28, taking place in the United Arab Emirates, has brought together 70,000 global leaders, including heads of State, ministers, senior officials, international organizations, private sector representatives, as well as youth and civil society organizations.
At the IICA pavilion in Dubai, the Amazonia Legal Consortium calls on all of Latin America to cooperate with COP30, which will be held in the Amazonian city of Belém
During the activity, the countries of the region were invited to play an active part in the process leading up to the first COP to be held in Amazonia, whose goal must be to trigger a global change in environmental agendas.
Governor of Pará, the state in the Brazilian Amazon chosen to host COP30, envisages IICA playing a leading role in strategy that combines environmental conservation with social development
Helder Barbalho said IICA is an important instrument and international partnerships are essential to change the concept of land use, implementing regenerative agriculture actions to restore degraded areas so they can produce food, create green jobs and guarantee sustainable production.
Circular economy + bioeconomy: Latin America and the Caribbean presented a formula to boost productivity and increase sustainability in front of a large audience at COP28 in Dubai
The setting for this motivating presentation was the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas, a pavilion that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) installed together with its 34 Member States and other strategic partners from the private sector at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).