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Lessons from key food sectors to harmonize and scale greener production

As COP28 heads into its final working days in Dubai, the UN’s agriculture wing launched on Sunday a ground-breaking plan that looks to transform the world’s agrifood systems from a net emitter to a carbon sink by 2050.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has identified 10 priority areas — such as livestock, soil and water, crops, diets and fisheries — where following the roadmap can help push the world closer to achieving ‘Zero Hunger’, the second of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

As COP28 heads into its final working days in Dubai, the UN’s agriculture wing launched on Sunday a ground-breaking plan that looks to transform the world’s agrifood systems from a net emitter to a carbon sink by 2050.

Professor Colleen Lyons shares her take on a loss and damage fund to support forest health around the world as a critical climate change mitigation strategy. She is presenting a related call to action at COP28.

The new model suggests that Amazon plants would reorganize, allocating more energy to their roots at the expense of stems and leaves; consequently, they would have a lower capacity to retain and absorb carbon in a scenario with reduced rainfall.

The Ethnic Chaplaincies Annual Festival is a vibrant community heartbeat within Auckland diocese. This special family event in October was a faithful reflection of the variety of cultures that form the Catholic community.

In both national and multilateral fora, Bolivia is increasingly showing its reluctance to curb deforestation. President Luis Arce, soon to be entering the penultimate year of his term, has built up a poor environmental record, supporting the unbridled growth of a largely extractive economy, continuing to renege on its commitment to the Rights of Mother […]

Issues centring ecological protection are inherently political, but in this dying earth, these are repeatedly depoliticised.

For centuries, these people thrived as forest hunters and gatherers in the Ecuadorian Amazon.