Tag Archives: food system

Good Food Finance Week Outcomes: Driving change in food systems finance

This blog outlines solutions identified during the Good Food Finance Week to achieve a food systems transformation, highlighting best approaches, current financial innovation, the opportunity for both private and public financiers, and the need for standardizing science-based thinking and reporting through all aspects of the value chain.

New UNEP Report Outlines Steps to Mobilize Good Food Finance, Highlighting Exemplary Targets

UNEP’s Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems report outlines a roadmap for financiers to drive significant capital flows towards sustainable food systems, identifies actions to develop an enabling policy environment to promote sustainable finance, and highlights good practices demonstrated and promoted by the Good Food Finance Network’s High Ambition Group.

Climate Metrics: measuring progress and catalyzing investment in sustainable food systems

This brief summarizes key trends in climate-related metrics used by financial institutions working in the sustainability of food systems and provides an overview of the current state of climate metrics.

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. 

World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2023

Read more The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2023 explores global risk trends over the next decade. Climate and environmental risks are the core focus of global risks perceptions – and are the risks for which we are seen to be the least prepared. In relation to the food and agriculture space, land-use changeContinue reading “World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2023”

GFFN addressing the finance gap during COP27: Now analyzed in UNEP’s newest State of Finance for Nature Report

The Good Food Finance Network is working to mobilize public and private financial actors to address the financing gap covered in UN Environment Programme’s 2022 State of Finance for Nature Report.

Leading financial institutions announce ambitious targets in the food sector ahead of COP27

Targets set by public and private sector finance and business leaders in the Good Food Finance Network’s (GFFN) High Ambition Group mark the beginning of a journey aimed to raise the level of ambition in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, bringing food systems further up on the sustainable finance agenda. 

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’  (Geneva, 27/10/22) The Good Food Finance Network’s High Ambition Group, a group of 11 influential institutions in food and finance, today unveiled a first tranche of environmental and social impact targets covering over US$108 billion of existing assets. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) praised the targets and called onContinue reading “Finance leaders publish new generation of ‘high ambition’ targets for the sustainable food transition”