International Climate Policy
The Mega-Deltas play a huge role in the sustainable development of societies and livelihoods. But with climate change, developing adaptation measures are among the necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of agricultural communities surrounding these ecosystems. Each of the deltas has its own additional challenges and goals to arrive at sustainable, healthy, and inclusive Food Systems.
Learn more about how inclusive and evidence-based planning can transform ecosystems and lives of farmers in the Asian Mega-Deltas at #COP27 with this side event by IRRI, WorldFish, and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) titled: Agricultural Transition in Asian Mega Deltas.
Current financing for climate action in food systems is insufficient for the transformation required. This session will focus on the role of climate finance in assisting producers, especially smallholders, and how to engage them in transitioning to low-carbon agriculture while improving livelihoods.
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The longest-on-record annual UN Climate Conference - COP25 in Chile aimed to finalize the Paris Agreement Rulebook with a focus on settling on rules for international carbon trading, besides other areas including adaptation to climate impacts and change-induced loss and damage. Despite disagreements and divergence of national climate policies, COP25 affirmed a clear direction of the global climate process towards decarbonization.
Rice and Climate Change
What is the status of rice in the midst of climate change? How can rice research address climate change challenges? What are the future steps in IRRI's research in climate change mitigation? Learn about the connection between climate change and rice at our special #IRRIatCOP24 digital booth, featuring Dr. Ole Sander.
Dr. Ole Sander is one of IRRI's climate change experts and the Institute's country representative to Vietnam.
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The Global Climate UN – COP24 in Katowice ended in success. Negotiators from 196 countries and the European Union worked for two weeks on the Katowice Climate Package, implementing the Paris Agreement. More than a dozen intense meetings enabled negotiations to be successful on different topics regarding principles aimed at implementing the Paris Agreement, which was signed in 2015. For two weeks, a wide range of issues were discussed – some fundamental, others very detailed and technical – which gave birth to a complex and difficult document. Finance, transparency and adaptation are some of its aspects. Read more
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At the UNFCCC's 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23), nations made significant progress towards more comprehensive and specific implementation guidelines for the Paris Agreement. The COP23 also witnessed the the first substantive COP decision in the history of the UNFCCC processes on agriculture - the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture adopted by countries to address climate change and food security. Under this agreement, governments commit to facilitate collective actions by small-scale farmers to adapt and build resilience to climate change. Read more
What is NDC?
Countries across the globe committed to create a new international climate agreement by the conclusion of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015. In preparation, countries have agreed to publicly outline what post-2020 climate actions they intend to take under a new international agreement, known as their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). The INDCs will largely determine whether the world achieves an ambitious 2015 agreement and is put on a path toward a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) -The SBSTA is one of two permanent subsidiary bodies to the Convention established by the COP/CMP. It supports the work of the COP and the CMP through the provision of timely information and advice on scientific and technological matters as they relate to the Convention or its Kyoto Protocol.
NDCs: Vietnam, Bangladesh and Thailand
Nationally determined mitigation options
Countries across the globe committed to create a new international climate agreement by the conclusion of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015. In preparation, countries have agreed to publicly outline what post-2020 climate actions they intend to take under a new international agreement, known as their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). The INDCs will largely determine whether the world achieves an ambitious 2015 agreement and is put on a path toward a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) -The SBSTA is one of two permanent subsidiary bodies to the Convention established by the COP/CMP. It supports the work of the COP and the CMP through the provision of timely information and advice on scientific and technological matters as they relate to the Convention or its Kyoto Protocol.
INDCs: Vietnam, Bangladesh and Colombia