CoAct Database

The Restoration Initiative (TRI)

FAO is engaging in the Climate Action Summit at many levels, and has been an active participant in the discussion since the first inception workshop in early 2018. We are well aware of the critical moment we re facing and the need to stimulate significantly increased ambition at a time when so many climate indicators are not pointing in the right direction. While FAO is also closely engaging with other coalitions, such as Resilience and Infrastructure & Cities, the bulk of FAO’s expertise and mandate lies within the NBS area. FAO estimates that 24% of all greenhouse gases are caused by the AFOLU sector, however at the same time 44% of the existing, scalable and operationally feasible solutions to bend the curve and stay within the agreed climate goals come from the same sector. Virtually every sector FAO works on contains important elements that are helping countries to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. For this first round of discussions and prioritization, FAO has opted to highlight seven major technical areas that do not yet receive sufficient attention, despite the fact that they provide some of the quickest impact solutions available. FAO is also working closely with a wide range of partners, contributing to other joint proposals on a wide range of topics, and looks forward to backing up the NBS coalition with its full technical experience, its strong in-country linkages, and its normative and convening role. The seven priority areas of FAOs contribution are:

• Ecosystem Restoration as a nature-based solution for climate action
• Low Carbon Livestock Coalition
• Recarbonization of Global Soils
• Climate Change and the Ocean - adaptation strategies for fisheries and aquaculture
• Food Loss and Waste Reduction for Climate Action
• Forests and trees: a nature-based solution to global urban challenges
• Climate Change and Plant Health: Biodiversity to the Rescue Several of these areas are relatively new for the entire climate community, and FAO is working hard to collect examples of scalability, potential impact prediction and costs. This is especially true for the areas of plant health and of food loss & waste. FAO is also working on detailed concepts to FAO’s work on “Spatial observation and monitoring tools for cooperative climate action”, and to “Global cooperation for combating wildfires as climate change mitigation policy”. Given the short timeline for proposals, it has not yet been possible to fully develop the concepts along the required format, but these will be available in the future as useful cross cutting tools.