SBSTA60 side event | The road to Belém & beyond: financing & leveraging agroecology for impactful NDCs, NBSAPs and NAPs

03.06.2024
Berlin room, United Nations Campus, Bonn

As countries will have to up-date their NDCs, NBSAPs & NAPs, this hybrid event which took place during SBSTA60 in Bonn and online on 3 June explored the pivotal role of national agroecology frameworks to coordinate action on climate change, biodiversity loss & land degradation and will discuss the crucial role of climate finance to strengthen these ecosystem-based approaches.

Framing inputs:
  • Oliver Oliveros (Agroecology Coalition)
  • Moritz Fegert (Biovision)
Panellists:
  • Roberto Azofeifa, Chief Agroenvironmental Production Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Costa Rica   
  • Saskia Sanders, Policy Advisor for sustainable food systems, Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland   
  • Alexander Lingenthal, Senior Policy Officer, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany 
  • Karen Nekesa, Chair Climate Change and Agroecology Working Group, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Genna Tesdall, Director, Young Professionals for Agricultural Development and board member of Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) partnership 
  • Dr. André Moreira Bordinhon, Department of Innovation for Family Production and Agroecological Transition of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture, Brazil 

Moderation: Martina Fleckenstein, Agroecology Coalition & WWF International, Food Practice