Join the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program’s event series at COP24, linking multiple side events into the single theme, “Agriculture Advantage 2.0: Transforming food systems under a changing climate”. Hear from experts and WBCSD CSA members, partners and staff discussing next steps to scale up actions to drive a transformation within global food systems that will help to achieve food security, adaptation to climate change and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from the sector.

Rice is the daily staple for over 3.5 billion people, has huge importance for the climate resilience of 144m farmers and has equivalent GHG emissions to global aviation. Join the Global Environment Facility and WBCSD on Monday 10 December for our unique event on how climate smart solutions can apply for sustainable rice production and value chains across the landscape.

WBCSD, together with We Mean Business Coalition members and Business for Social Responsibility(BSR), launched CSA 100, a new global initiative to mainstream climate smart agriculture across the food and agriculture sector and bring it into closer alignment with the ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement. Companies joining CSA 100 will develop science-based and measurable targets across the three pillars of climate smart agriculture. This will help CSA 100 to contribute to the achievement of food productivity, climate change resilience and adaptation, and greenhouse gas mitigation.

The Indonesia Food Loss and Waste Action Partnership is the first nation-wide Public-Private collaboration aiming to reduce food loss and waste outside the Western world. Supported by key ministries, the partnership brings together private sector and civil society, including delegates from multiple organizations of Ambassadors and Partners of the Food and Land Use Coalition and SDG12.3 Champions. The Partnership is convened by the FOLU Coalition and coordinated by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and WRI with financial support from P4G, the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030.

WBCSD Global Network Partner CEBDS, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development, is developing a CSA framework in the country based on improving public knowledge and putting hands-on pilot projects into practice. The Smart Farm Program pilot project has been set up in partnership with Bayer AG, Climate Smart Group and others, rooted in Matopiba, Cerrado, known as the Brazilian savannah. The main objective of this program is to showcase CSA best practices on two farms, which includes technologies like Integration Crop Livestock and Forest (ICLF) for beef and soy, Agroforestry and ecological corridors with native species and sustainable production of oil to improve soil health, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and farmer resilience through income diversification. Check out the original article in Portuguese for more information on the trip

The Global Climate Action Summit, held early September in San Francisco, and was designed to showcase the work of local governments and non-state actors in mitigating climate change and featured a turnout of over 4,000 individuals. Climate commitments from WBCSD members and others were announced and ranged in topic and included resilience, climate smart agriculture, and more. With support of We Mean Business and WBCSD, CSA targets were discussed and committed to by leading companies including Unilever, Olam, Syngenta, and Rabobank. A key theme of the summit included implementing solutions more quickly, with an emphasis on natural climate solutions.