ESS 3 aims at reducing and managing potential risks that may arise from climate change, and other multiple and often simultaneous hazards. It also provides guidance on how to reduce risks and increase the adaptive capacities of threatened and affected communities and their agrifood systems. 

Objectives

• Minimize greenhouse gas emissions associated with FAO programmes and projects, and enhance and maintain carbon sinks.
• Ensure that all FAO programmes and projects integrate climate change and disaster risk considerations.
• Climate-proof FAO programming by promoting climate-resilient measures, climate change mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction, to reduce the exposure and vulnerability of communities and their livelihood systems to the impacts of climate change and disaster risks.
• Strengthen low-carbon and resilient agrifood systems to address both the risks associated with climate change and disasters, their related impacts on people, livelihoods, food security and nutrition.