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Risk sharing between sectors at the heart of the solution in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit | |
UN Environment | |
26 Apr 2021 | |
出版年 | 26 Apr 2021 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
英文摘要 | It has been an eventful week for the financing of game-changing solutions in food systems:
The growing chorus of commitments to sustainable finance is not just admirable, its essential. While we have seen similar calls in the past - especially in the food and agriculture sector - action has been constraint by:
Unless these failures are addressed, we won’t realize the full potential of sustainable finance. It needs to be mobilized, getting it to the hands of small- and medium-scale farmers, the custodians of nature on the frontline of climate change. So it was exciting for UNEP to co-convene a UN Food Systems Summit Dialogue with Rabobank, the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. It brought together stakeholders from across the financial system to address market failures I highlighted. By addressing these failures collectively, we can outline a clearer roadmap for implementation for the UN Food Systems Summit and the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this November. My takeaway from the Dialogue is the need for action on four priorities, on which the UN food and climate summits must deliver:
On Earth Day, I’m glad to say I believe that action on these priorities is within our grasp. But leadership is needed to steer global momentum into concrete measures. As Rabobank Chairman Wiebe Draijer said: "A trickle grows into a stream, then a river and ultimately an ocean.” Every major actor - from banks and investors on the one hand, to agribusinesses and consumer goods companies as well as governments - will have to leave their "safe corner" if we are to transition to more sustainable food system. Sharing the financial, market and reputational risk will be at the heart of the solution. This requires leadership from these major actors. From governments who need to be willing to adjust trade tariffs and fiscal policies away from business-as-usual, to the need for sharing the financial risk involved in novel (blended finance) transactions involving agribusinesses, banks, investors and governments. If this is put in a motion we can make concrete steps to restore the 2 billion ha of degraded land and improve the lives of the half a billion smallholder farmers around the world. The diversity of participants and the rich discussion was why our UN Food Systems Dialogue was so inspiring, bringing together corporations, investors, governments, scientists and farmers to explore ways forward. We now need to progress from dialogue to action. That we must act now to secure a sustainable future, before it’s too late.
About the AuthorIvo Mulder, Head, Climate Finance Unit, UNEP
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