Agriculture Advantage 2.0 at COP24 | Transforming food systems under a changing climate: From priorities to action
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This opening event of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series will build on the outcomes of the Agriculture Advantage 1.0 event series at COP23 in 2017, which put forward a vision and action agenda for transforming agriculture under climate change. The event will showcase opportunities and emerging examples of transformative actions in food systems in response to climate change.
Tentative program
Speaker | Agenda | Duration |
Brian Thomson, Senior Communications and Advocacy Specialist, Environment and Climate Division, IFAD | Welcome, objectives of the event series, outline of the session | 10 mins |
Martin Frick, Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination, UNFCCC | Opening remarks | 10 mins |
Ana Maria Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Head of Global Policy Research, CCAFS | Keynote presentation: Transforming food systems under a changing climate: From priorities to action | 15 mins |
| Q&A | 10 mins |
Panel discussion: Emerging opportunities for transformative actions Moderator: Evan Girvetz, Senior Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | 40 mins | |
Graham Thiele, Director, RTB | Next generation technologies to tackle climate challenges in agriculture |
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Victoria Hatton, Senior Policy Analyst, International Policy Division, Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand | Enablers for food systems transformation |
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Godefroy Grosjean, Asia Climate Policy Hub Leader/Climate Policy Expert, CIAT | Climate-Smart Agriculture: Identifying the best bets |
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Viridiana Alcantara Cervantes, Technical Advisor, Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Germany | Transforming agriculture by recarbonizing the earth's soil |
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Dean Cooper, Market Development Manager - Energy, SNV | Leveraging finance to create opportunities for scaled climate action |
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| Q&A | 30 mins |
Evan Girvetz, Senior Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | Closing remarks | 10 mins |
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This event is part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24, a collaborative effort of more than 15 organizations with the mission to transform agricultural development in the face of climate change. Click here to see the series of events at COP24.
Related resources:
- Briefing: A 6-part action plan to transform food systems under climate change, available in 2 formats: Exposure story with animated graphics | downloadable Info Note
- Koronivia submission: Submission from the CGIAR System Organization, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture and the World Bank, in response to Decision 4/CP.23
- Journal article: Agriculture in a changing climate: Keeping our cool in the face of the hothouse
- Journal article: Transformation in Practice: A Review of Empirical Cases of Transformational Adaptation in Agriculture Under Climate Change
- Global Commission on Adaptation report: Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture