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AUDIO NEWS RELEASE - FAO OCD Director Kaveh Zahedi on COP30

FAO Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, Kaveh Zahedi delivers key messages on the role of FAO, agriculture, indigenous peoples and forests at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Script Transcript:

1. Agriculture, food systems and forests at the heart of climate action at COP30 (0:00-0:30)

COP30 is an incredibly important watershed moment because it's the moment to reiterate how agriculture and food systems have to be an integral part of discussions on adaptation and building resilience. COP30 is also a critical moment for elevating the importance of the role of forests . Including how to better deal with the increased incidence of forest fires, as well as how to essentially enable countries to safeguard their forests, to take care of their forests, to manage and maintain their forests.

2. Climate extremes already threatening farmers, harvests and food production (0:31-0:57)

Climate extremes are impacting food and agriculture today. It's not about the future. It's happening right now. The unpredictability of the weather is making it very difficult for farmers to harvest. One extreme event undermines an entire harvest. We are seeing an increase in pests and disease. We're seeing an increase in extreme heat that affects not just agriculture but the farm workers as well.

3. Indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge key to protecting forests and securing our future (0:58 – 1:15)

You can't deal with forests, you can't deal with agriculture without dealing with the people who are custodians of the land, who are producing our food, our agriculture. And in many cases, especially in the case of the forests, that is the Indigenous Peoples and the knowledge that they bring, traditional knowledge that they bring that can actually safeguard us against a very uncertain future.

4. Investing in agrifood systems delivers multiple benefits for climate, biodiversity and food security (1:17-1:56)

Investments in agrifood system solutions bring multiple benefits. It's about climate response, building resilience, reducing emissions, carbon sequestration. But it's also about the sustainable use of biodiversity. It's also about land degradation and reversing land degradation. It's about food security. Agrifood system solutions bring multiple benefits. Right now, if you look just at climate finance, only about 4% of it is making it to some of these solutions, like restoring degraded land, like agroforestry. And we need to increase that if really we're going to get the most—the optimum—out of the solutions that only agriculture and food systems have to offer.

5. The Resilient Agriculture Investment for net Zero land degradation (1:57 – 2:39)

I think the top priorities in general for COP 30, and it's after COP 30, the implementation of COP 30 is number one, supporting countries to translate the sort of the ambition, the vision of what they want to do in terms of building resilience, adaptation, mitigation, to translate that ambition at the national level into their own planning. Number two is then to actually make those plans come real, implement all of the solutions we know better management of rice, agroforestry, restoration of degraded agricultural land, including through new initiatives that are coming from COP like RAIZ (Resilient Agriculture Investment for net Zero land degradation). And very closely linked to that is finance: not enough finance is flowing towards agrifood systems solutions to climate change.

Duration 2m39s

File size 3.05 MB

Unique identifier UF1B60C