The UN’s agriculture branch unveiled a groundbreaking plan on Sunday that aims to turn the world’s agrifood systems from net emitters to carbon sinks by 2050, just at COP28 enters its last working days in Dubai.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has designated ten priority areas, including fisheries, crops, livestock, diets, soil and water, and diets, where implementing the roadmap can contribute to the global achievement of the second of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “Zero Hunger.”
By 2050, the goal is to turn agrifood systems—which include the methods used to cultivate and harvest food—from net emitters into carbon sinks, absorbing 1.5 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions yearly. These processes include how the food is farmed or raised, how it is transported, and how and where it is disposed of. This will contribute to the eradication of world hunger while keeping global warming within the 1.5 degree threshold established by the Paris Agreement.
Meanwhile, David Laborde, Director of the FAO’s Agrifood Economics Division, told UN News on the fringes of the UN climate conference in Dubai (COP28) that the roadmap is intended to prevent “doomsday scenarios” and offers ways to take action now that will benefit everyone, both now and in the future.
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