Tag: food systems
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Blueprint for data systems integration—tracking high-value co-benefits
The Integrated Data Systems Initiative is a five-year innovation sprint, organized by the Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) and recognized by the 2023 Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate Summit. The GFFN ‘Blueprint for Good Food Finance Data Systems Integration’ marks the culmination of Year 1 of that sprint. When we examine the landscape of…
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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…
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Crop yields threatened by climate change impacts
By Michael Terungwa David, PhD Climate change threatens to undermine food production in Benue state, the food basket of Nigeria. The food we consume depends on a reliable background of natural systems, which bring together nutrients, water, patterns of temperature and precipitation at specific times of year, and numerous ecological factors. All of these factors…
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The Right to Resilience
The 2023 Reinventing Prosperity Report, from the Resilience Intelligence program of Citizens’ Climate International Topline Takeaways Principles for Reinventing Prosperity In 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, the Citizens’ Climate International leadership team held weekly calls for interested stakeholder leaders from our network around the world. Those calls revealed that people…
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Investing in Nature means Prioritizing Health & Resilience
As nature-loss, mass extinction, ecosystem breakdown, and climate disruption impose more and more serious impacts, there is growing awareness that we need to invest in nature. The idea is controversial, though, because historically, investing in nature has meant either exploiting (and destroying) nature or turning nature into a commodity, which often ends up being the same…
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Trade can deliver a climate-smart future
It is the unwritten background insight underlying all international climate policy debate and negotiation that success will mean all trade is climate-smart, along with the everyday economy, everywhere. Trade is the word we use to describe the economic, financial, and commercial relationships of exchange between nations, but we all participate in trade. Trade determines what…
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