Climate Change News
FAO news on climate change
2 July 2009
FAO-World Bank study explores the changing face of rural space in the Balkans.While the Western Balkans are seeing healthy economic growth overall, rural areas are falling behind, according to a new FAO-World Bank report.Agricultural trade deficits are widening, climate change is putting pressure on agricultural resources, and young people are increasingly migrating to urban areas or abroad in search of economic opportunities. [more...]
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1 July 2009
“We have all the elements in our industry, the willingness and the potential to contribute, to be part of the solution to climate change.”Teresa Presas, Managing Director of CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries), will be a key-note speaker on Opportunities for Development at the XIII World Forestry Congress in Argentina. [more...]
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3 June 2009
Climate change mitigation from agriculture could also benefit hunger and poverty reduction. Agricultural mitigation in developing countries can make farming more resilient to the vagaries of climate change and can also reduce hunger and poverty, FAO said in a policy brief for climate change negotiators currently meeting in Bonn/Germany. [more...]
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3 June 2009
Reducing and removing emissions from the agriculture sector, while ensuring food security and enabling economic growth will need to form part of an urgent global effort to achieve the ultimate objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). That's why including agriculture within a Copenhagen agreement is so important. In this Policy Brief entitled Anchoring Agriculture within a Copenhagen Agreement, FAO makes three proposals for including agriculture in a future climate change regime:(i) Include Agriculture in the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) of developing countries(ii) Ensure financing for agricultural mitgation (iii) Move towards a comprehensive landscape approach [more...]
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2 June 2009
Saying that vulnerable fishing and coastal communities around the world will bear the brunt of climate change's impacts, a group of 16 international organizations today have urged climate negotiators to ensure that fisheries and aquaculture are not neglected in ongoing discussions regarding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.In a policy brief issued today in advance of UNFCC talks in Bonn, Germany, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Bank, the WorldFish Center and 11 other organizations* warned that millions of fishers, fish farmers and coastal inhabitants will experience less stable livelihoods, changes in the availability and quality of fish for food, and heightened risks to their health, safety and homes as a result of climate change. [more...]
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1 June 2009
For the first time, farmers in poor countries are to be rewarded under a binding international treaty for conserving and propagating crop varieties that could prove to be the saviour of global food security over the coming decades. A new benefit-sharing scheme, part of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, is to come on stream thanks to the generous donations of several governments that will support five such farmers’ projects. [more...]
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last updated: Wednesday, May 6, 2009