The FAO-UNDP SCALA programme is organizing a Hackathon to find innovative digital and non-digital solutions that harness the power of technology to improve land use and agriculture sectors to achieve climate resilience and contribute towards climate adaptation goals in Asia and the Pacific countries’ climate plans. Read more about the conditions and apply now!

Three months before global attention was focused on the annual UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, stakeholders gathered in Gaborone, Botswana at NAP Expo 2022 to focus on adaptation planning through the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. Read more about the common challenges and solutions at NAP Expo 2022 and SCALA's support on NAPs.

Transformation of food systems is critical to achieving countries’ NDCs and NAPs. Conversely, NDCs and NAPs provide entry points to identifying pathways for transformative change. This article is based on the COP27 World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) side event where the SCALA programme took part, highlights the need for food to “be on the table,” on the agenda, at COP 27 and beyond.

Unlocking multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative agrifood systems through NDCs and NAPs
Tuesday, 15 November 2022 | 10:00 – 11:00 (GMT+2)
Venue: Food and Agriculture Pavilion

Our food is on the table: Accelerating the transition to resilient food”
Saturday, 12 November 2022 | 10:00 – 10:045 (GMT+2)
Venue: Business Pavilion

Supporting transformative climate actions in agriculture and land use in Egypt through SCALA
Saturday, 12 November 2022 | 12:30 – 14:00 (GMT+2)
Venue: United Nations Egypt Pavilion

#Together4transparency: The role of adaptation reporting under the ETF in agriculture sectors
Tuesday, 8 November 2022 | 14:30 – 15:30 (GMT+2)
Venue: Capacity-Building Hub

The SCALA programme and the UNFCCC PCCB Network brought together a variety of stakeholders from government and civil society for an exchange of experiences in implementing gender-responsive climate action. Learn more...

At the Africa Climate Week, Uganda presented its approach to monitoring, reporting and verifying the climate actions of their national government, local governments, civil society, and the private sector. The country takes an inclusive approach to reporting, which enhances transparency, builds capacity, and can be replicated in other countries. Read more...

The SCALA programme sat down with Mr. Pongthai Thaiyotin, the Director at the Bureau of Agricultural Economic Research in the Office of Agriculture Economics (OEA) and Ms. Benjaporn Chakranon, the Director General of Land Development Department (LDD) to learn about how SCALA will support Thailand transform its climate action over the next four years of the programme.

Building on over seven years of joint collaboration (through the IKI-funded NAP-Ag and SCALA programmes), UNDP and FAO are organizing this webinar, on Thursday 6 October at 15:00 CEST to create a space for an exchange of experiences on gender-responsive national climate planning processes.

The SCALA programme sat down with her Excellency Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Ministerof Environment of Egypt, to learn more about the national priorities and opportunities to enhance the country’s climate ambition and to highlight the programme’s plans over the course of its implementation. Read full interview...

The SCALA programme is organizing an in-person side event at the NAP EXPO 2022 in Gaborone, Botswana on “Step-by-step guidance to enable transformative climate solutions as part of NDC/NAP implementation in the agriculture and land use sectors”. This side event will provide an open dialogue amongst National Adaptation Plan country practioners and stakeholders on the key dimensions, drivers and barriers to transformation in the agriculture and land use sectors within the context of climate change and NAP/NDC implementation.

Côte d'Ivoire partnered with the FAO-UNDP SCALA programme, to further support the implementation of its agriculture climate plans. The SCALA focal point at the UNDP Office in Abidjan, Mr. Jean Douglas Anaman, to learn more about how the programme will support Côte d'Ivoire to increase action in agriculture and land use, with a focus on sustainable agroforestry landscapes around cocoa culture.

The "Systems-level assessments" webinar was organized to target all colleagues in FAO and UNDP country, regional and global offices working under the SCALA programme, including any national consultants who may be undertaking systems-level assessments and relevant government counterparts who might be engaged in carrying out the systems-level assessments at the country level.

The global climate crisis is everyone’s business. Countries have committed to lower emissions and sustainable practices across all sectors. Change is needed across the agriculture system, from farmland to store front – and this can only be accomplished with a joint effort from all players in the agribusiness industry...

An interactive and engaging webinar is being organized by the SCALA programme and UNDP´S Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) team on effective collaborative action and aimed to highlight why collaboration is needed in support of NDC and NAP implementation in the agriculture and land use sectors.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published contributions by all three of its Working Groups to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Let us take a closer look at 8 key messages and the implications for global efforts to reduce climate risks and to discover how SCALA is supporting these efforts.

The SCALA programme and WBCSD co-organized a knowledge-sharing webinar on “Scaling business impact for agriculture NDCs and NAPs” to discuss how businesses, the public sector, and associations can work together to drive more low carbon resilient food systems. 

In early 2022, Ethiopia officially launched the SCALA programme with an inception workshop that brought together key stakeholders from the Ministries, private sector and civil society institutions. The SCALA programme sat down with Negus Lemma, the Director General at the Climate Change and Biodiversity (EPA) and H. E, Wondale Habtamu, the Advisor of the Minister (MoA) in Ethiopia to learn more about the outcomes of the workshop and highlight the programme’s plans for the next five years.