Greening synergies

Overview

Join this event to explore a broad array of solutions aimed at achieving a sustainable balance between agricultural and forestry objectives and halting deforestation. Supply chain approach and financial innovations for amplifying ground-level efforts will be highlighted.   

The event aligns with the COFO-COAG agenda item on “Linkages between agriculture and forestry”, presenting recent developments in conserving forest resources and related ecosystem services, achieving climate goals and enhancing livelihood, including through the transformation of agrifood systems. 

The event will introduce the “solution-tree” interactive online platform and call for collaboration from countries and partners for further identification of positive solutions to achieve sustainable commodities production while conserving and protecting forest ecosystems.

Financial solutions will be showcased as key enablers for forest-positive practices. The event will feature an analysis of public expenditures aimed at aligning sectoral policies, balancing competing country priorities and improving the coherence of public spending with national climate, sustainability, production and economic objectives.

Objectives

• Foster a systematic approach. Thinking at a systemic level and build inter-sectorial solutions can lead to significant and more permanent results in reducing deforestation and enhancing livelihoods.  
• Tackle context-specific needs. Dynamics in land use change are highly context-dependent and different approaches are needed for responding to this diversity – there is no one-size-fits-all solution, but it is possible to imagine tailored and bespoke responses from the many examples and solutions already identified.  
• Enhance collaborative development. Invite participants to submit additional indirect drivers, measures, case studies, tools, and publications to enrich the “solution-tree” online platform collaboratively, fostering a participatory development process.  
• Enhance understanding of public expenditure and policy coherence to broaden the scope of solutions on financial strategies to reduce deforestation and increase cross-sectoral synergies.
  

Astrid Agostini
Senior Adviser – Climate and Environment
FAO Investment Centre 
FAO

Kawashima Yutaka
Senior Policy Analyst for International Affairs
Forestry Agency
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 
Japan

Tiina Vähänen
Deputy Director
Forestry Division
FAO 

Haruni Krisnawati
Senior/Special Advisor
Minister of Environment and Forestry
Indonesia

Serena Fortuna
FAO member of the UN-REDD Management Group Team
Team Leader and Senior Forestry Officer
Halting Deforestation, Degradation, and Emissions Team
Forestry Division
FAO

Simon Gmeiner
Policy officer
Unit on Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries
European Commission's Directorate General International Partnerships

Antoine Haouchine
International Relations Officer
European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment

Pascal Liu
Senior Economist
Markets and Trade Division
FAO