Transforming Agricultural Innovation Systems by 2030
The Agriculture Breakthrough
Speakers
- The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith, Minister for Pacific and the Environment, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
- Mattias Frumerie, Head of the Swedish delegation to UNFCCC and Sweden’s chief climate negotiator.
- Ban Ki-moon, 8th UN Secretary-General & Co-chair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens [video address]
- Rachel Lambert, Agriculture Research Team Leader, FCDO
- Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Director, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)
- Joao Campari, Global Leader, Food Practice, WWF International
- Joanna Purcell, Head of Partnerships – Innovation Accelerator, World Food Programme
- Jyotsna Puri, Associate Vice-President - Strategy and Knowledge Department (SKD), IFAD
- Nigel Topping, UK High-Level Climate Action Champion [video address]
Concept
An official side-event co-hosted by the UK, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA), and Clim-Eat as part of the Stockholm+50 conference to be held on 2-3 June 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Fitting with the action-oriented agenda of the conference (linking to the United Nations ‘Decade of Action’), this side event will introduce the Agriculture Breakthrough, announced at the COP26 World Leaders Summit as a key mechanism to accelerate the innovation and deployment of technologies in agriculture.
The event will highlight the Breakthrough target of making climate resilient, sustainable agriculture the most attractive and widely adopted option for farmers everywhere by 2030, and spotlight initiatives that would deliver measurable results towards this target.
This event will be of relevance to two of the three leadership dialogues in which the Stockholm+50 conference is structured:
- Leadership dialogue 1: Reflecting on the urgent need for actions to achieve a healthy planet and prosperity of all
- Leadership dialogue 3: Accelerating the implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development in the context of the Decade of Action
It will bring together action-oriented stakeholders that focus on transforming agricultural innovation for people, nature and climate and outline challenges and opportunities to accelerate action. To address these challenges and tap into opportunities, the Agriculture Breakthrough was launched by the UK Minister with support from the incoming COP27 Presidency.
Expected outcomes
The event seeks to:
- Introduce the Agriculture Breakthrough with an initial set of countries endorsing, and setting out the process for the Global Checkpoint Mechanism.
- Mobilize the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture, a.k.a ClimateShot as a key mechanism to implement the ambitions of the breakthrough.
- Generate momentum to advance action on sustainable agriculture innovation from COP26 and in the lead up to COP27
About Stockholm+50
“Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity” (Stockholm+50) will take place five decades after the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. The event will provide leaders with an opportunity to draw on 50 years of multilateral environmental action to achieve the bold and urgent action needed to secure a better future on a healthy planet.
By recognizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling the Earth’s triple planetary crisis – climate, nature, and pollution – the event will to act as a springboard accelerate the implementation of the UN Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, including the 2030 Agenda, Paris Agreement on climate change, the post-2020 global Biodiversity Framework, and encourage the adoption of green post-COVID-19 recovery plans.
The meeting will also reinforce the messages and the outcomes of the event to commemorate UNEP’s 50th anniversary (UNEP@50), which will have taken place in March 2022, in Nairobi.
Stockholm+50 is convened by the United Nations and is hosted by Sweden with support from the Government of Kenya.
Source: stockholm50.global
The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was made in 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden, resulting in what is often seen as the the first step toward the development of international environmental law, recognising the importance of a healthy environment for people, and creating the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Five decades after the 1972 Stockholm Conference, the Government of Sweden, with support from the Government of Kenya, will host “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity”, in Stockholm on 2 and 3 of June 2022.