Daily schedule of events

Fields of Value: Rewarding Livestock Farmers who Work for Nature

Time: 14:00-15:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Agrizone, Auditorium A1
Organizers: FAO LEAP, GASL and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Driving climate action through public procurement: solutions for resilient and inclusive economies

Time: 16:45-18:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 6
Organizers: UNOPS, UNEP, UNIDO, FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Public procurement, a major driver of public spending, can be a powerful climate tool. This session explores how embedding climate goals into procurement, including food procurement, can reshape markets, drive resilience, and support a just transition, with tools and insights from governments and UN partners.

Jeunesse africaine et résilience climatique : des solutions locales pour transformer les systèmes alimentaires 

Time: 11:00-12:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Francophonie Pavilion
Organizers: FAO Burundi, World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative 
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

La session met en lumière les résultats d’initiatives terrain, les stratégies de mobilisation des jeunes et les exemples de réussite en terme de résilience climatique. Elle met également l’accent sur la contribution des réseaux de jeunesse francophones à la mise en œuvre de l’Accord de Paris, notamment via l’intégration des priorités jeunesse dans les CDN, PAN et cadres stratégiques nationaux. 

Fostering human and social development amid climate change – the power of social protection for all

Time: 15:00-16:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 5
Organizers: ILO, FAO, UNICEF, UNRISD
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event explores how social protection for all can advance climate resilience and a just transition, highlighting progress, opportunities, and challenges. It supports the COP30 declaration on Hunger, Poverty and Human Centered Climate Action, in which social protection plays a central role.

Somalia unveils NDC3.0 Investment Plan to drive resilience and low-carbon growth by 2035

Time: 9:30-10:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, NDC-Partnership Pavilion
Organizers: Government of Somalia, FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

At COP30, the Federal Government of Somalia, through the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, will launch its NDC Investment Plan 2025–2035: Investing in Somalia’s Climate Future — a costed roadmap to achieve its enhanced NDC 3.0 targets, including a 34% emissions reduction by 2035. The event aims to mobilize global partnerships and financing to turn Somalia’s climate vulnerability into a foundation for peace, stability, and sustainable development.

NAM Youth Perspective: The Baku Harmoniya Climate Initiative for Farmers

Time: 11:45-12:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Children and Youth Pavilion
Organizers: Non-Aligned Movement Youth Organization (NAMYO), COP29 Presidency, World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative, FAO, International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS)
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This dialogue will reflect on outcomes from the World Food Forum flagship 2025 side event and explore how the Baku Harmoniya Initiative’s focus on collaboration, climate finance, and empowering women and young farmers is being implemented on the ground. The session aims to shape a youth-led multistakeholder roadmap for deeper engagement with the Harmoniya Initiative to strengthen climate-resilient food systems at COP30 and beyond.

Growing momentum for health care climate action: implementation, mobilization and acceleration

Time: 14:00-15:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Axis 5 Thematic Room
Organizers: FAO, Health Care Climate Challenge, Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health, Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN), Climate change and health initiative, Connecting Climate Minds
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Governments and non-state actors are advancing efforts to build low-carbon, climate-resilient health systems. This session will bring together health ministries, healthcare providers, mental health advocates, private sector leaders, and multisectoral stakeholders to share success stories and explore the path forward for maximizing health co-benefits beyond Belém.

The Role of Livestock in Circular Bioeconomy Systems  

Time: 10:00-11:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Agrizone, Auditorium 4
Organizers: FAO LEAP
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Youth Leadership Matters: Building Momentum for Inclusive and Actionable NDCs

Time: 12:30-13:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Axis 5 Thematic Room
Organizers: FAO, Care about Climate, UNIDO, Gender & Energy Compact, World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative, Student Energy Solutions Movement
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

As a member of the COP30 Action Agenda Activation Group 18 on Education, capacity-building and job creation to address climate change, the World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative is contributing to both the Results Plan to Accelerate Solutions (PAS) and the showcase of solutions. This event will highlight youth-led achievements that support NDCs 3.0, sharing best practices and case studies. The outcomes of the WFF Youth Assembly consultations on agrifood systems and NDCs 3.0 will also be formally presented.

Highlighting mountains: incorporating mountain priorities into the UNFCCC

Time: 13:15-14:45 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 1
Organizers: FAO, Mountain Partnership
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Within the Mountain Partnership framework, this side event aims to elevate the mountain agenda and convene Mountain Partnership members to align on common priorities for mountain ecosystems and communities, including the Global Goal on Adaptation, Global Stocktake and Just Transition process.

Turning the tide on pests: harnessing sterile insects for climate-smart farming in Latin America and the Caribbean

Time: 15:00-16:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: IAEA pavilion
Organizers: Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This side event will present how applied research using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) has helped prevent, contain, suppress, and eradicate fruit flies in the Americas, with successful examples from Brazil, Chile, and Mexico supporting sustainable trade.

High-level Opening with Minister Marina Silva

Time: 10:00-11:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion
Organizers: Brazil, Canada, UNFF, CPF, FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Delivering on the COP30 action agenda and global stocktake through aquatic blue foods

Time: 11:30-13:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4
Organizers: WorldFish, FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This will be a high-level dialogue to integrate aquatic foods into climate and food systems policy. It aims to break silos and spotlight opportunities for aquatic foods in the COP30 Action Agenda to support implementation of GST outcomes, including NDCs, Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work, and the Global Goal on Adaptation.

Catalyzing climate tech: unlocking bioeconomy pathways for systemic change

Time: 12:00-13:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Food and Agriculture Pavilion
Organizers: UNEP
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event will examine how climate technologies can accelerate the bioeconomy as a transformative driver of sustainable development and climate action. It will introduce the CTPR 2025 report and its key messages, with a special focus on the Latin America and the Caribbean regional chapter. The session will explore rapidly advancing bioeconomy innovations such as biomass conversion, bio-based materials, sustainable agriculture, land-use practices, and carbon sequestration while outlining regional opportunities, barriers, and pathways to enhance climate ambition.

Towards a Global Mutirão: Uniting data, finance and collective action for forests and people

Time: 14:00-15:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue zone, Thematic Hub
Organizers: FAO, Capital for Climate, The Nature Conservancy, IIGCC
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This session brings together investors, governments, indigenous people’s representatives and partners to showcase how scalable nature finance is made possible by committed investors, bold policy supported by robust and transparent data, can halt deforestation and scale restoration - towards a Global Mutirão for forests and nature.

Youth4Soil: Scaling Farmer-Centered Restoration

Time: 15:15-16:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Action on Food Hub
Organizers: FAO, Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH), Youth4Soil, UNCCD Youth Caucus, Global Landscapes Forum Restoration Stewards, World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative, IAAS, YOUNGO, YPARD, GYBN
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event will advance the co-development of the Youth4Soil (an initiative of the Coalition of Action for Soil Health) Manifesto by validating insights from global consultations and identifying youth priorities for soil health and sustainable agrifood systems. It will convene youth leaders, policymakers, and partners to co-create key messages and actionable recommendations for COP30. The session will also strengthen partnerships and outline the roadmap toward the Manifesto’s launch on World Soil Day 2025.

Achieving Food and Nutrition Security, Climate, Nature, and Development Goals through Food Systems

Time: 16:45-18:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 3
Organizers: GAIN, Mercy for Animals, FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

A Global Call to Unlock the Power of Peatlands for Climate, Nature and People This session will explore how the Peatland Breakthrough is catalyzing global action, uniting countries, communities, and companies to restore and protect the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems.

Accelerating Integrated Nutrition-Climate Action

Time: 9:30-10:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Axis 3 Thematic Room
Organizers: FAO, ICAN, SUN Movement, GAIN, WHO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Climate action in agrifood systems must deliver co-benefits for nutrition. I-CAN, launched under Egypt’s COP27 Presidency, supports this by generating evidence and country-level action. This session shares national experiences and presents the I-CAN analysis on climate–nutrition integration.

Transforming agrifood systems through climate science

Time: 9:30-10:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Science for Climate Action Pavilion
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Agrifood systems are at the heart of climate change challenges and solutions. This side event will explore how climate science is informing the transformation of agrifood systems to be more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive. Drawing on insights from the IPCC’s cycles and FAO’s latest research, the session will highlight the critical role of science in shaping climate policy and practice across adaptation, mitigation, and food security. The event will feature updates on how agriculture is addressed across IPCC Working Groups and the Task Force on Inventory. FAO, with Partners, will present the annual release of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data for agriculture, launch the 2025 Working Paper synthesizing emerging evidence on climate impacts and agrifood system responses, and share new insights on crop suitability under evolving climate scenarios. It will also highlight FAO’s analysis of National Adaptation Plans and NDCs, emphasizing the importance of science and data in strengthening climate-related agricultural policies. Bringing together scientists, IPCC authors, UNFCCC negotiators, policy makers and country representatives, the event aims to foster dialogue on how climate science can support agrifood system transformation.

Locally Led Adaptation: how to move from principles to practice?

Time: 10:15-11:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Francophonie Pavilion
Organizers: FAO; Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) has emerged as a priority in climate negotiations, aiming to place producers, communities, and local actors at the heart of adaptation solutions. Yet, turning principles into practice remains a challenge. This session will highlight francophone experiences demonstrating how adaptation can be designed, financed, and driven at the local level. Speakers from Senegal, Haiti, international partners, and the Government of Québec will discuss practical ways to strengthen local leadership, decentralize resources, and scale up effective models for agricultural adaptation.

Transforming Blue Food Systems for equity, resilience, and climate action

Time: 10:30-11:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Food and Agriculture Pavilion
Organizers: Aquatic Blue Food Coalition; Embrapa; Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Brazil; FAO; European Bureau for Conservation and Development; WorldFish; Environmental Defense Fund; International Institute for Environment and Development
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This session will explore the multiple dimensions that shape blue food systems, including justice, equity, community leadership, resilience, aquatic animal welfare, and climate action. Drawing insights from governments, communities, researchers and civil society, the discussion will highlight diverse approaches and solutions for building food systems that are both sustainable and inclusive. Panelists will analyze opportunities and challenges across these dimensions, sharing insights on pathways to more resilient and climate-aligned blue food systems.

Turning the tide on deforestation: a decade -defining moment

Time: 11:00-12:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Special Event Room 4
Organizers: FAO, UNEP, UNDP and UNFCCC
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Canopy of collaboration: integrating forest assessment and climate reporting

Time: 12:50-13:50 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion
Organizers: FAO, UNFCCC
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Unlocking finance at scale for land restoration, climate adaptation and food security

Time: 14:00-15:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Food and Agriculture Pavilion
Organizers: FAO, CGIAR
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Showcasing RAIZ as vital for climate resilience, food security, and environmental gains. The event convenes governments, investors, and community leaders to mobilize finance and partnerships, scale food systems transformation and restoration, and achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030.

From Call to Action to Implementation: the Global Fire Management Hub

Time: 15:30-16:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Axis 2 Thematic Room
Organizers: FAO, CGIAR
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Building on the Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and wildfire resilience put forward during the Belém Climate Summit, this event showcases results of the Global Fire Management Hub. The Fire Hub brings together key partners to advance Integrated Fire Management through: knowledge sharing, capacity building, wildfire-resilient communities, risk reduction and early warning, and policy support.

Moving towards a transformative gender action plan at COP30

Time: 15:30-16:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Food and Agriculture Pavilion
Organizers: FAO, CGIAR
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This side event will highlight critical gender and youth dimensions within agrifood systems to inform the implementation of the revised UNFCCC Gender Action Plan at COP30. Drawing on evidence and experiences from research and policy practice, it will underscore the importance of inclusive, gender-responsive approaches in advancing climate-resilient food systems. The session will facilitate dialogue among policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to identify actionable pathways for strengthening women’s and youth leadership in transformative climate and agricultural agendas, especially at national level.

Peatland Breakthrough: a Global Call to Unlock the Power of Peatlands

Time: 18:30-20:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 1
Organizers: FAO, Wetlands International, German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), Global Environment Centre (GEC) Michael Succow Foundation for the Protection of Nature (MSF)
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

A Global Call to Unlock the Power of Peatlands for Climate, Nature and People This session will explore how the Peatland Breakthrough is catalyzing global action, uniting countries, communities, and companies to restore and protect the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems.

From negotiations to fields: ANGA and ASEAN-CRN powering agrifood transformation

Time: 09:30-11:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: ASEAN pavilion
Organizers: ASEAN Climate Resilience Networkm, FAO RAP
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This session will showcase ANGA as ASEAN’s policy vehicle connecting global climate negotiations with regional agrifood action. It will highlight how ASEAN-CRN fosters policy coherence and access to finance, featuring the GCF Readiness Grant as a model for translating UNFCCC decisions into practice.

AgForest Lab: a living lab for innovation in nature-based solutions and the strengthening of sustainable production systems in the Amazon biome

Time: 10:00-11:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Agrizon, Auditorium 2
Organizers: Embrapa, FAO, Certi
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

From commitments to action: progressing water in NDCs 3.0 and NAPs

Time: 10:00-12:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Water Pavilion
Organizers: SIWI and WaterAid in collaboration with GIZ/BMZ (Germany), Netherlands, UNICEF, FAO, UNESCO, WMO, IWMI, RDI, CCBD, Wetlands International, Water Policy Group, Water for People, RUPFA, Deltares, ASTM International
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The event will explore how water is being mainstreamed into climate commitments and used as a connector across sectors. As the first COP after the NDC 3.0 deadline, COP30 is a key moment to shift focus from planning to implementation. With more NDCs and NAPs now integrating water, the priority is effective, inclusive, and cross-sectoral action.

Trade, climate, food security, and development potential of seaweed aquaculture

Time: 11:20-12:35 (GMT -3)
Venue: Agrizon, Auditorium 3
Organizers: UNCTAD
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The objective of this event is to explore the multifaceted benefits and opportunities of regenerative and low carbon aquaculture with a focus on seaweed. By examining its potential to enhance trade, mitigate and adapt to climate change, bolster food security and circularity, and drive sustainable development, the event aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of seaweed's role in achieving SDGs 2, 13, 14 and 17.

Unlocking carbon markets for farmers: scaling agrifood solutions

Time: 11:30-12:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue zone, ASEAN pavilion
Organizers: FAO, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) Japan
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This session will showcase ongoing efforts to strengthen carbon market readiness in agrifood systems across Asia under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the voluntary carbon market. It will highlight how these mechanisms can finance farmer-centered solutions with mitigation–adaptation co-benefits, such as alternate wetting and drying in rice, agroforestry, and improved livestock systems.

Youth-Led Transformation: Driving Climate Action and Resilient Food Systems

Time: 12:00-13:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Food and Agriculture Pavilion
Organizers: UNU, Global Citizen, FAO, AGRA
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The session brings together expert insights on enabling conditions, policy ecosystems, financing, and equity required to scale youth-led climate and food system innovations, highlighting “returns on resilience” and showcasing youth-driven success stories from African food systems.

From Farm&Food to future: driving climate action through NDC 3.0

Time: 12:30-13:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, NDC-Partnership Pavilion
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event will showcase tools, resources, and partnership opportunities available through the FAO NDC Agrifood System Help Desk to assist countries move from commitments to financed, measurable, and impactful actions. It will also provide space for dialogue on integrating agrifood systems into national climate strategies while ensuring food security, livelihoods, and resilience are at the heart of NDC implementation.

PLACA: Regional cooperation in agriculture and climate change from Latin America and the Caribbean

Time: 12:40-13:55 (GMT -3)
Venue: Agrizone
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

PLACA unites 18 LAC agriculture ministries to strengthen regional cooperation on climate action, align national priorities with global goals, and showcase joint solutions ahead of COP30.

Aquatic foods for climate action: resilient solutions from small-scale fisheries and aquaculture

Time: 12:40-13:55 (GMT -3)
Venue: Agrizone, Auditorium A3
Organizers: Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The event will explore the vital role of aquatic foods in climate-resilient and low-emission food systems, with a focus on small-scale fisheries and aquaculture. It will highlight practical solutions such as nature-based practices, integrated systems, and guidance tools to support the inclusion of aquatic foods in national and regional climate planning, including nationally determined contributions. It will also explore gaps in investment, data, and policy alignment.

Launch the Bioeconomy Challenge Metrics Working Group, defining key objectives, anticipated outcomes, and milestones through 2028

Time: 15:30 to 16:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Special Events Room 2
Organizers: Ministry of Environment of Brazil
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Launch of the Bioeconomy Challenge Working Group on Metrics to work towards standardizing bioeconomy parameters and transforming the 10 High-Level Principles into specific, measurable metrics, building on the FAO Towards building a monitoring and assessment framework study and other related approaches.

Unlocking climate finance for agrifood transformation and climate action 

Time: 18:30-20:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Agrifood systems transformation holds great climate action potential, yet climate finance gaps lead to lost opportunities. The event will explore how climate finance - capital & carbon markets, optimized national investments & subsidies - can trigger scaled-up action for achieving the Paris Agreement. 

Empowering youth in fisheries & aquaculture: Advancing climate action through sustainable aquatic food systems 

Time: 09:00-10:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Virtual Ocean Pavilion, Online
Organizers: FAO, World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative, Global Youth Constituency on Fisheries and Aquaculture
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The event will showcase youth leadership and initiatives in fisheries and aquaculture to strengthen climate action, raise awareness of the work of the FAO Youth Constituency on Fisheries and Aquaculture, and build inclusive partnerships for sustainable, resilient, and climate-resilient aquatic food systems.

Seaweed and aquatic foods: blue solutions for climate resilience  

Time: 9:30-10:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Axis 3 Thematic Room
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event explores pathways for sustainable aquatic food and non-food uses (e.g. cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biomaterials & biofuels) through FAO’s Blue Transformation and the UN Global Seaweed Initiative (UNGSI), showcasing how aquatic systems can drive climate-resilient, low-emission, and nature-positive solutions for food, product development and livelihoods.

Scaling-up resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall: global launch of the SURAGGWA project

Time: 9:30-10:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Food Hub Pavilion
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The event will launch the SURAGGWA programme, a USD 222 million Green Climate Fund investment to restore degraded landscapes and build resilience across eight Sahelian countries, advancing the Great Green Wall ambition and contributing to climate, food security, and sustainable livelihoods.

Climate and biodiversity benefits of forests for agriculture

Time: 10:00-11:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The event will catalyze concrete dialogue among policymakers and partners on integrating forest-agriculture synergies into global frameworks, identifying actionable pathways for advancement under UNFCCC and COP30 processes and related processes on biodiversity, and desertification.

Agriculture ministerial: resilient agriculture investment for net zero land degradation - RAIZ

Time: 10:30-12:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Room Parnaíba
Organizers: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This Ministerial event will launch RAIZ, a global ”mutirão” to accelerate investments in resilient agriculture and farmland restoration. Cureently, over 20% of agricultural land is degraded worldwide. Degraded land has a lower productive potential, contributing to food insecurity and triggering a negative spiral of deforestation. Restoring degraded land is a priority across all Rio Conventions, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG Target 15.3). However, we must rapidly scale financing to meet these global commitments and achieve important co-benefits for climate, nature and food security. The COP30 Resilient Agriculture Investment for Net-Zero land degradation (RAIZ) will convene existing initiatives, stakeholders and investors across the UNFCCC, UNCBD, and UNCCD conventions to unlock funding from multiple sources for agricultural land restoration at scale.

Launch of TERRA: scaling restorative agroecology and agroforestry

Time: 11:15-12:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion
Organizers: FAO Forestry Division (NFO)/Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), Ministry of Agrarian Development of Brazil
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event will introduce the Productive Forest Initiative, led by Brazil under its National Productive Forests Program (NPFP), as a scalable model to restore degraded lands, strengthen family farming, and promote sustainable forest-based value chains. 

Youth-led agrifood systems solutions as climate solutions

Time: 12:10-12:55 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Children and Youth Pavilion
Organizers: World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative, FAO, COP30 Presidency Youth Climate Champion
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event will spotlight how youth are driving the transformation of agrifood systems through their advocacy, innovation, and educational initiatives to advance both sustainability and food security. Through a dynamic roundtable, youth leaders will share their experiences and insights, demonstrating how their solutions can be adapted and scaled across diverse contexts. The outcomes of the WFF Educators Network’s ‘Recommendations on implementing climate change education’ across six COP30 thematic areas in Latin America and the Caribbean region will be presented.

Ministerial panel on women of the waters: resilience and adaptation in artisanal fisheries and aquaculture

Time: 12:30-13:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Brazil Pavilion
Organizers: Brazil Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The ministerial panel will focus on the role of women in building resilient and adaptive fisheries and aquaculture.

FAST Partnership and CCAC ministerial meeting: scaling up practical solutions for resilient agri-food systems

Time: 12:30-14:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Room São Francisco
Organizers: FAO, CCAC, PLACA, Harmoniya, I-CAN, RAIZ, World Bank
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The FAST Partnership will host a high-level ministerial event at COP30 to showcase concrete results improving access to finance for smallholders, women, and youth, directly contributing to GST outcomes and advancing sustainable agrifood systems.

Promoting Water-Resilient Food Systems for Climate Action

Time: 14.00-15.15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Water for Climate Pavilion
Organizers: FAO, IWMI, SIWI
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

With climate change intensifying water scarcity and disrupting agricultural productivity, ensuring that food systems can withstand water-related stresses is essential. This session aims to explore why water-food linkages are key to promoting both climate mitigation and adaptation, and how strengthened mainstreaming of water-food linkages in climate policies promotes achieving global clima

Regional Platform of Latin American and Caribbean(PLACA) ministries of agriculture: driving coordinated climate action in agrifood systems

Time: 16:15-17:15 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Cumaru Room
Organizers: FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

In a global context where climate commitments must turn into concrete action, this high-level panel showcases how PLACA, led by Peru and Brazil with FAO as secretariat, unites 18 LAC agriculture ministries to drive regional cooperation and advance the global climate agenda.

Turning targets into action: climate-resilient food and agriculture under the Global Goal on Adaptation

Time: 16:30-17:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, German COP30 Pavillon
Organizers: FAO, Alliance Ciat-Bioversity, WWF, Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Aktion Gegen den Hunger,
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Climate change is no longer a future threat but a present reality—slow onset and extreme events are disrupting food production, deepening food insecurity, and worsening water scarcity, particularly for vulnerable groups such as women, children, indigenous populations and family farmers. Achieving climate-resilient food systems and fulfilling nutrition needs of vulnerable communities is therefore central to global adaptation efforts and sustainable development. Bridging the gap between policy and local perspectives, this session will explore how the indicators suggested as part of the Global Goal on Adaptation framework could leverage increased climate change adaptation action, MOI (capacity building, technology and finance), and deliver tangible benefits for people and ecosystems.

From COP28 to COP30: Building resilient food systems for climate, health, and nutrition

Time: 9:00-10:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, WHO Pavilion
Organizers: HDSFS Coalition, I-CAN, UN Coordination Hub, SUN, GAFF, University of Sao Paolo; UN-Nutrition
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event will bring together actors from the Government, Food Systems National Convenors, UNFSS Coalitions of Action, various stakeholders, multi-partner platforms and experts to discuss the progress in the interconnection between food systems, climate, health and nutrition.

From traditional practice to global policy: Indigenous Peoples and fire stewardship

Time: 10:00-10:45 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion
Organizers: FAO, IUCN, GATC, Tropenbos
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This COP30 side event highlights Indigenous-led fire stewardship as key to climate adaptation, biodiversity, and sustainable land management. It will showcase traditional fire practices, foster dialogue with policymakers and experts, and identify pathways for inclusive Integrated Fire Management.

Turning policy into practice: advancing integrated fire management across countries

Time: 11:00-11:45 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion
Organizers: FAO, IUCN, GATC, Tropenbos
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

Innovative financial solutions for inclusive agrifood systems transformation

Time: 11:00-12:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Axis 3 Thematic Room
Organizers: FAO , FAST Partnership
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The FAST Partnership hosts a session on innovative, inclusive financial solutions to bridge the climate finance gap. Focus on leveraging public/private funds, strengthening capacity for smallholders, and embedding agrifood priorities in national investment

Cooperation mechanisms to support small-scale fisheries & seaweed aquaculture

Time: 12:00-13:00 (GMT -3)
Venue: Ocean Pavilion
Organizers: Brazil Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, FAO, Aquatic Blue Food Coalition, EBCD,  WorldFish, EDF, IIED, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - Embrapa Environment
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event explores opportunities for small-scale fisheries and seaweed aquaculture to drive climate mitigation and adaptation while strengthening livelihoods and food security. Drawing on experiences from BRICS and beyond, it will highlight cooperation mechanisms, technologies, and financing to promote low-emission, resilient aquatic food systems while supporting coastal communities.

Delivering on the COP30 Action Agenda and Global Stocktake through aquatic blue foods

Time: 13:15-14:45 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4
Organizers: WorldFish, FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This will be a high-level dialogue to integrate aquatic foods into climate and food systems policy. It aims to break silos and spotlight opportunities for aquatic foods in the COP30 Action Agenda to support implementation of GST outcomes, including NDCs, Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work, and the Global Goal on Adaptation.

ASEAN leadership in converging food system policies for resilience, nutrition, and climate ambition

Time: 14:00-15:30 (GMT -3)
Venue: ASEAN pavilion
Organizers: UN Food Systems Coordination Hub and FAO
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

This event within 90 minutes will highlight ASEAN Member States’ experiences in transforming food systems supported by initiatives such as the Hub Food Systems Convergence initiative. The event will showcase flagship national and UN projects and state-of-the-art approaches which align global climate, nutrition and biodiversity agendas, translating commitments into actionable national pathways.

Ministerial panel on aquatic food systems as climate solutions 

Time: 13:35-14:45 (GMT -3)
Venue: Blue Zone, Brazil Pavilion
Organizers: Brazil Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Livestream: Youtube Livestream

The ministerial panel aims to celebrate the inclusion of fisheries and aquaculture in the Climate Action Agenda and to enhance the visibility of concrete mitigation and adaptation actions implemented within these sectors, thereby contributing to the sustainability, resilience, and adaptation of food systems.