UN launches global roadmap to end hunger in line with Paris Agreement

ROME

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) unveiled a “global roadmap” on Sunday to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition in line with the Paris Climate Accords.

The Global Roadmap for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) without Breaching the 1.5°C Threshold outlines various actions and milestones to transform food production in response to threats from the climate crisis and chronic hunger while limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C (2.7F) as outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The statement called for transformative change by 2030 in light of the growing global climate crisis and situation of 600 million people facing chronic hunger.

It also highlighted a roadmap presented at the COP28 summit in Dubai, outlining 120 actions across 10 areas, including clean energy, fisheries, food waste, forests, wetlands, healthy nutrition, livestock, soil and water, aiming to reconcile food systems with climate.

The roadmap aims to reduce methane emissions from agrifood production and systems by 25% by 2030, relative to 2020 levels, before reaching carbon neutrality by 2035. Its long-term targets include transforming the sector into a net-positive carbon sink by 2050, capturing 1.5 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu underscored the importance of climate financing for agrifood systems transformation “to achieve good food for all, today and tomorrow.”

The statement also warned that the transformation of agricultural food systems, crucial for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity, is at risk due to declining funding.