World leaders at the United Nations climate conference, COP 28, signed a declaration on Friday to adopt policies and come up with finance to transform their food systems for a climate under immense strain.
The 134 signatories commit their countries “to expedite the integration of agriculture and food systems into our climate action and, simultaneously, to mainstream climate action across our policy agendas and actions related to agriculture and food systems” by 2025. More countries are expected to sign on by the summit’s end on Dec. 12.
The agreement marked a strong start to COP 28 in Dubai, where food and land use have taken center stage for the first time since the annual conference began in 1995. The COP 28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action is the first resolution at any COP to draw links between climate change and the food we eat.
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