Food Systems Summit: How the UN Aims to Make the Future of Food Greener, Healthier, and Fairer
Governments will offer ideas for sustainable food systems to solve global hunger and warming.
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) People don t agree on much when it comes to food. But most think how we produce it isn t working for everyone on the planet, nor for crucial natural systems vital to food production, including soils, water, and the climate.
In response, an upcoming UN summit on food systems aims to curb damage to the environment and wildlife from what s on our plates, as well as tackle hunger made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate-heating emissions from agriculture and food waste.
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Giant leap for nature? All eyes on China to land new global pact
A worker lifts a tree from the ground at the Toudunying state-owned commercial forest estate in a village near the edge of the Gobi Desert, on the outskirts of Wuwei, Gansu province, China, Apr 16, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
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KUALA LUMPUR: Securing an ambitious new global pact to protect nature at a UN biodiversity summit later this year will require stronger political leadership from host nation China, officials and observers have warned.
About 195 countries are expected to agree the text of a new treaty to safeguard the planet s plants, animals and ecosystems, similar to the Paris climate accord, at UN talks scheduled for October in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.
Jul 13, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – Securing an ambitious new global pact to protect nature at a U.N. biodiversity summit later this year will require stronger political leadership from host nation China, officials and observers have warned.
About 195 countries are expected to agree the text of a new treaty to safeguard the planet’s plants, animals and ecosystems, similar to the Paris climate accord, at U.N. talks scheduled for October in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.
But the prospects of sealing a deal at the COP15 summit already postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic are dwindling unless in-person talks can happen, U.N. officials say.