As the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference enters the closing days, many of the highest-value areas of climate-related investment and transformation remain largely untapped by the mainstream economy. While the negotiations in Belém, at the edge of the Amazon region, have advanced new initiatives for sharing science insights and investing in conservation, it is important that we not overlook theContinue reading “Agroecology to drive high-value sustainable development”
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ICJ climate opinion has implications for food finance
In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly formally asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on the obligations of states with regard to climate change, under international law. The request asked for legal findings on two core questions: On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the ICJ issued its landmark Advisory Opinion on theContinue reading “ICJ climate opinion has implications for food finance”
City food finance principles to build Climate Value
Cities are increasingly important in the work of shaping human access to health and wellbeing. As more of the world’s population moves to cities, decisions that determine whether air and water are clean and safe, and how food is acquired and distributed in local economies, may determine how long people live and how free theyContinue reading “City food finance principles to build Climate Value”
Belém is an opportunity to avoid costly economic breakdown
The COP30 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Belém, Brazil, offers many opportunities for expanding investment into climate action and its everyday benefits. In many ways, Belém provides a unique opportunity to take those benefits far beyond clmate priorities, to support improved conditions across whole economies. For a long time, one of the greatContinue reading “Belém is an opportunity to avoid costly economic breakdown”
Make trade work for everyone
Climate value must be built into all decisions on trade By Steve Valk As the world strives to meet the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep the increase in temperature from exceeding the 1.5°C threshold, international trade has the potential to be the driver of best-case outcomes for people and for theContinue reading “Make trade work for everyone”
Cooperative innovation in energy, food, finance & trade can halt climate breakdown
Ahead of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, CCI is calling for a significant increase in multilateral climate cooperation, in line with Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement. 32 years have passed since the community of nations formally agreed to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. Since the Paris AgreementContinue reading “Cooperative innovation in energy, food, finance & trade can halt climate breakdown”
The future of finance is distributed, multiscale, and resilience-building
The future of finance will be less exploitative and better designed to generate sustainable value, inclusively. It will be distributed, multiscale, and resilience-building. We know this, because the raw math shows it must be so. Already the number of catastrophically costly events driven by climate destabilization has proliferated wildly. Most regions are now experiencing multiple overlapping major climateContinue reading “The future of finance is distributed, multiscale, and resilience-building”
What are food environments and why do they matter?
GFFN Founding Partner, EAT Forum researchers are developing a classification approach to better understand the intersection between food environments, gender, nutrition, and other factors. Read the Brief now!
Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement invites integrated data systems
To shift food-related finance to health-building, climate-smart and sustainable practices, investors and public sector decision-makers will need data. Decision-support data for finance that reduces harm and builds resilience, broadly, will need to qualify performance across multiple dimensions. Integrated metrics will be key to achieving an integrated and holistic investment transition. Article 6.8 of the ParisContinue reading “Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement invites integrated data systems”
Good Food System Transition: Repurposing agricultural support to promote fiscal resilience, human and planetary health
There are opportunities for institutional investors and policymakers to work together on the agenda of repurposing agricultural support and on agricultural policies. This can inform win-win policies that can better support human health, help stabilize the climate, as well as enhance businesses’ productivity and preserve the ecosystems on which food production depends.
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