Webinar: Scaling up action and finance for the Biodiversity–Climate–Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean

Virtual Event, 31/01/2024

Background

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) invites you to a webinar on the Biodiversity–Climate–Food Nexus, to be held on 31 January 2024, 12:00–13:30 CLST / 16:00–17:30 CET.

A Biodiversity–Climate–Food Nexus approach simultaneously considers biodiversity, climate and food security and nutrition objectives in solution planning, aiming to achieve a triple-win outcome. The webinar will explore the opportunities and challenges of leveraging this approach to access finance and scale-up integrated action, including through the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

It will also provide an opportunity for participants to share their views on key needs and on opportunities to overcome barriers in applying a Biodiversity–Climate–Food nexus approach to the design and implementation of projects and programmes.

Agenda

Moderator: Hivy Ortiz Chour, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

Time	Agenda item
10 minutes	Opening remarks Kaveh Zahedi, Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB), FAO Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO
20 minutes	Keynote presentations [with interactive polls] The Biodiversity-Climate-Food nexus – *Frederic Castell, OCB Biodiversity Mainstreaming Unit, FAO Mainstreaming the nexus into project design – Nadine Valat, OCB Green Climate Fund Unit, FAO Lessons learnt from GEF and GCF projects in Latin America and the Caribbean to access biodiversity-climate finance through agrifood systems – Maria Mercedes Proano*, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
15 minutes	Questions and answers
20 minutes	National perspectives – solutions in agrifood systems to deliver on biodiversity and climate commitments, and enhance food security and nutrition The “Securing the Future of Global Agriculture in the face of climate change by conserving the Genetic Diversity of the Traditional Agroecosystems of Mexico (FSP)” – *Jorge Larson, Dirección de Usos de la Biodiversidad, CONABIO The “Gobernanza Marino-Costera” project of Chile – Rocío Parra Cortés, Gabinete del subsecretario de Pesca y Acuicultura de Chile The Caribbean SOILCARE project – Trevor Thompson*, Project Manager
20 minutes	Discussion
3 minutes	Closing remarks from the moderator

To register and participate in the webinar, please use the link:

https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EMtI4g5rQXGq4HYqtctM_Q

Contact

Martina Salvo

Communications Consultant, Regional Initiative for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture