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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Innovative Collaborative Funding Model de-risks investments in good food transformation
By Hamid Hamirani, Senior Advisor FSF and Managing Principal EHA Advisory Innovative Collaborative Funding Model: De-Risking Investing in the Good Food Transformation The Innovative Collaborative Funding Model (ICFM) is designed to address food security, improve nutritional outcomes, support adoption of climate smart agricultural practices, and enhance sovereign fiscal resilience. A new paper outlines the model, along withContinue reading “Innovative Collaborative Funding Model de-risks investments in good food transformation”
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.
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.
Integrating a human rights-based approach in European development finance institutions
This paper aims to outline human rights-based approaches for IFIs and DFIs, highlight good practices, and discuss some of the challenges linked to their operationalisation. Read more now!
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”
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.
HOT MONEY 40 financial institutions are funding a climate-changing agri-methane footprint
Read the report This report focuses on the 20 investors and 20 banks that are funding the methane-generating activities of 15 of the leading meat and dairy companies worldwide. Collectively these financial institutions fund a methane footprint that could exceed 503 Mt CO2e1 – nearly as big as the CO2 emissions of Saudi Arabia2. TheContinue reading “HOT MONEY 40 financial institutions are funding a climate-changing agri-methane footprint”
CBD COP15 Kunming-Montreal Global biodiversity framework: Draft decision submitted by the President
Conference of the parties to the convention on biological diversity, fifteenth meeting – part II. This document outlines a set of actions and targets to conserve and sustainably use the world’s biodiversity, including those related to food and agriculture.
The future of food and agriculture: Drivers and triggers for transformation
The fundamental message of this report is that it is still possible to push agrifood systems along a pattern of sustainability and resilience, if key “triggers” of transformation are properly activated. However, strategic policy options to activate them will have to “outsmart” vested interests, hidden agendas and conflicting objectives, and trade off short-term unsustainable achievements for longer-term sustainability, resilience and inclusivity.
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