Agrifood Finance & Enabling Policies to Drive Climate Action
COP29 Side Event, co-hosted by CCI, The FAIRR Initiative, The Good Food Finance Network, and The TAPP Coalition
Friday, November 15, 2024
15:00-16:30 Baku time
Side Event Room 2
COP29 Blue Zone, Area B
At COP28, 162 countries endorsed the UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action, committing to reorient agricultural support towards more sustainable practices.
This event brings together key leaders, experts, and advocates, to discuss realigning public support for the agrifood sector, to achieve climate goals, and catalytic financial innovations to ensure delivery of climate finance to those leading on food systems.
Moderator: Danielle Nierenberg – President, Food Tank
Part 1: Changing Government Financial Policies for a Paris-Aligned Agri-Food Sector (15:00- 15:45)
The TAPP Coalition and FAIRR Initiative will host a panel examining subsidies and Pricing policies. FAIRR focuses on structural signals to financial markets and the wider economy while TAPP Coalition focuses on pricing mechanisms to reduce emissions and hidden costs in the food systems of the OECD and China and what it could mean for the Loss and Damage Fund.
Patricia Fuller – President, IISD (Keynote)
Willem Branten – Public Affairs, TAPP Coalition
Trinto Mugangu – COP29 Climate Advisor, African Climate Action Initiative
Representative Nigerian Ministry of Environment
Part 2: Good Food Finance to Accelerate Cooperative Climate Action (15:45-16:30)
Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement calls for diverse non-market cooperation to accelerate climate action. CCI and the Good Food Finance Network will discuss how innovative co-investments can deliver benefits of trade, finance, innovation, and data, to local human development and make food systems climate resilient.
Zitouni Ould-Dada, PhD – Senior Advisor, FAIRR Initiative
Myra L. Jackson – Earth Law Center, Focal point on Climate Change and Global Restoration Collaborative, Core Member
Michael Terungwa David, PhD – Climate Civics International Africa Coordinator and Food Systems Specialist; Founder of the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP)
Lasse Bruun – Director, Climate and Food at UN Foundation
Explore an expanded resource library and the latest updated information at the interactive event page.
