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”
Nature Metrics: measuring progress and catalyzing investment in sustainable food systems
Published by the GFFN’s Metrics Catalyst Group, this brief outlines the crucial role of nature metrics in the world of finance, specifically for assessing the impacts and dependencies of food systems on nature.
Fast and Furious: The Rise of Environmental Impact Reporting in Food Systems
Explore trends, drivers, impacts and potential pitfalls, as well as the many open research and policy questions relating to environmental impact reporting
Guidance for Financial Institutions on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
GFFN’s supporting partner, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), has released a series of publications that offer guidance to banks, investors and other financial institutions for recommendations and actions to align with the GBF.
Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation Initiative (FAST)
The FAST initiative will be a multi-stakeholder partnership acting as an accelerator to transform agrifood systems to deliver triple wins: for people, for climate and for nature.
FAST is designed as a catalyst, building on ongoing global and regional initiatives and coalitions to drive effective actions, and avoiding duplication.
Investing in sustainable food systems: A methodology and lessons learned from Africa
This briefing note presents a five-step methodology to stimulate sustainable investments in agri-food systems and outlines six lessons learned from its application – Africa focus
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2022
According to the 2022 Emissions Gap Report, the international community is falling far short of meeting Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5 degrees C in place.Transforming food systems is imperative for avoiding dangerous levels of climate change and other environmental problems. The report identifies a range of transformation domains with several mitigation measures where food systems can contribute to bridge the emissions gap.
Systemic solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture, nutrition and food systems
This Working Paper on Systemic Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems explores three primary intervention categories that can be used as entry points for sustainable food systems
Roadmap for achieving net-zero emissions in global food systems by 2050
This report provides options and a vision to guide global food systems to achieving net-zero by 2050.
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