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”
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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”
Financing the good food transformation to promote fiscal resilience, addressing food security, human and planetary health
This research compiles compelling evidence of the fiscal burden on governments from unhealthy food systems. Inaction threatens stability through inflation, food insecurity, degraded land, and climate impacts. However, strategic public financing and innovative collaborative investment models can fund a just transition that benefits all.
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”
Finance leaders publish new generation of ‘high ambition’ targets for the sustainable food transition
UN-supported group urges wider finance sector to ‘supersize its ambition’ Farms and businesses with over US$108 billion of business volume will be asked by investors and financiers to help meet specific and time-bound targets in areas such as zero deforestation, carbon removal and gender equality. Finance sector players including Rabobank (NL), Nuveen Natural Capital (US), FIRA (Mexico) and Phatisa(Mauritius), convened by the Good FoodContinue reading “Finance leaders publish new generation of ‘high ambition’ targets for the sustainable food transition”
Address multicrisis by mainstreaming sustainable food finance
The 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly took place this month in the midst of a storm of converging crises, driven in part by skewed incentives in food, energy, and finance. Worsening climate disruption is reducing access to fresh water, threatening food supplies, and intensifying vulnerability across a diverse range of countries andContinue reading “Address multicrisis by mainstreaming sustainable food finance”
