Pre-COP26 is the final official ministerial meeting ahead of COP26, the UN Climate Conference which will be hosted in Glasgow in November 2021 under the presidency of the UK, in partnership with Italy.

Two COP26 preparatory events on climate change will take place from 28 September to 2...

FAO and UNEP to launch reports and discussion papers on plastics use in agriculture

The biggest climate change event in the world is just around the corner. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will kick off in Glasgow on 31 October. The

FAO Director-General spoke at the launch of the WMO-led report “2021 State of Climate Services: Water”

Even though Indigenous Peoples’ practices have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, climate change and extreme weather events aggravated by the COVID-19 health crisis have had an enormous impact on their livelihoods, cultures, identities and rights.

The new publ...

With just three weeks to go until the most important climate conference since Paris, pre-COP 26 events got the conversations going.

The 26th United Nations Conference preparatory meetings brought together climate and energy ministers from countries to discuss and exchange views on key p...

FAO is helping countries to turn climate commitments into actions with investments in the agriculture sector

Now is the time to act if we want to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Today as we celebrate World Food Day 2021, countries around the world are dealing with the widespread effects of multiple crises, including climate change.

Solutions exist:...

The biggest climate change event in the world is just around the corner. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will kick off in Glasgow on 31 October. 

The aim of this year’s conference is to finalize remaining decisions to ensure the full implementation of the Paris Agreement, FAO is present to reinforce its commitment to supporting countries in the climate negotiations, particularly through the implementation of the Koronivia Joint Work on ...

FAO Director-General tells Glasgow conference time is running out to end hunger by 2030

"FAO welcomes the progress made with Koronivia, and will continue supporting countries as they work towards defining next steps."

Eduardo Mansur, Director, FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB)

Over the last two weeks, all eyes were on the

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) today launched an important new bioeconomy publication for policymakers in countries and macro-regions.

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland between 31 October and 12 November. COP is a space for negotiation and FAO as an observer of this negotiation process, led and co-led 

With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) behind us, we spoke to Eduardo Mansur, Director of the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, on FAO’s participation in Glasgow where it called for linkages between the climate and food security agendas.

Ocean litter has been making the headlines, but a new report by FAO suggests that plastic pollution is also pervasive in our agricultural soils

Protecting our land, soil and water resources for the future of our food

At COP26, governments found significant agreement on the last three topics of the initial Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) roadmap, which complement the conclusions already adopted on the previous three. The intersessional workshops part 1 and 2 will be discussed at the Uni...

Rome – United Nations agencies and their partners should work closer together to make agrifood production more sustainable and energy-efficient, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General QU Dongyu told a UN energy meeting today.

Investing in clean, a...

The 2021 physics prize winner delivers a lecture on “Science: the headlight on our future”