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FAO at COP30
10-21 November 2025

Sustainable and resilient agrifood systems are central to climate action, essential for building resilience, and key to ensuring food security and nutrition for the 1.2 billion people whose livelihoods depend on them.

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) hosted by Brazil is a critical moment in global efforts to simultaneously address climate change and ensure food security and nutrition for present and future generations.

FAO is working with countries, and partners to place agriculture and food security at the center of negotiations, including discussions on the Global Goal on Adaptation, loss and damage, nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), climate finance, and just transition.

FAO is also supporting the COP Presidency’s Action Agenda including new Initiatives on Agriculture, Forests, and Bioeconomy. The Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) Partnership, hosted by FAO, will continue to serve as a COP-to-COP mechanism ensuring agrifood systems remain central to COP dialogues and supporting Presidency initiatives in post-COP implementation.

FAO is co-hosting the Food and Agriculture Pavilion for the fourth year in a row with the CGIAR, promoting multistakeholder dialogue within and alongside the negotiations.

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