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About Nature's Climate Hub

As part of the UN Climate Action Summit, the UN Secretary-General has initiated nine coalitions comprised of national governments and other key stakeholders. Their remit is to ensure transformative outcomes from the Summit. Nature-based solutions is one of the nine tracks. Nature’s Climate Hub, operating for four days, will mirror the work of the nature-based solutions coalition on each day.

Nature-based solutions harness nature’s capacity to reduce emissions and enhance resilience, offering a crucial response to climate change at the scale and pace that is needed to keep global temperatures within a 1.5 degrees rise. In addition, nature-based solutions also support efforts to achieve sustainable development in areas such as food security, poverty reduction and rural livelihoods. To make this transformation possible, the necessary actions must be clearly identified, along with robust implementation system and finance on an unprecedented scale.

Nature’s Climate Hub aims to accelerate, synergize and facilitate engagement across the climate, development and nature communities to showcase nature-based solutions. The hub will focus on climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience with the objective of increasing the scale of ambition and the speed of delivery. To achieve this objective, the hub will engage multiple stakeholders, including governments, companies, financial institutions, indigenous peoples, local communities and young people from all over the world.

About the workshop

Background

Please register via Eventbrite to secure your seat.

Please note that Eventbrite ticket holders must enter by 8:55 AM; after that time we will give seats to walk-ins. If no more tickets are available please join us as a walk-in. 

The Transforming Food Systems under Climate Change Initiative is a global effort involving over 100 organizations to change the way we produce and consume food to meet the SDGs. The initiative proposes science-based actions that can transform food systems, and identifies champions from business, civil society and governments to lead implementation.

Actions proposed under this initiative include nature-based solutions, to ensure that there is zero agricultural land expansion in high carbon landscapes and to improve carbon sequestration in degraded soils. 

Objectives

• Outline key opportunities to scale nature-based solutions and transform food systems.
• Identify champions to lead action to ensure zero agricultural land expansion in high carbon landscapes and to improve carbon sequestration in degraded soils.

Expected outcomes

• An action agenda to scale nature-based solutions for zero agricultural land expansion in high carbon landscapes and improved carbon sequestration on degraded soils, together with key champions identified to lead action.

Agenda

Partners

Partners participating in this event: 

• World Bank
• Kellogg Company
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Global Resilience Partnership
• Vi Agroforestry
• International Fertilizer Industry Association

Read more 

• Info Note: Enhancing Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ambition for soil organic carbon protection and sequestration
• Info Note: Fertiliser use and soil carbon sequestration: Key messages for climate change mitigation strategies
• Journal article: How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realise the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal
• Website: Transforming Food Systems Under a Changing Climate initiative 
• Brief: Local to global policy as a catalysts for change: key messages
• Working paper: Transforming food systems under climate change: Local to global policy as a catalyst for change
• Brief: Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers: key messages
• Working paper: Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers

This event page provides details for one of the four events that CCAFS will be participating in with partners during Climate Week NYC (22–29 September, 2019). To see other events that CCAFS is co-hosting or participating in, please click here.