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Highlight from the Climate Solutions Event Series at the UN Conference in Bonn
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Dear Seth,
This month the Future Economy Forum and our partner organizations Sekem, Imaflora, EIT Food and Natural Capitalism Solutions co-hosted Climate Solutions Dialogues in Bonn at the UNFCCC’s Climate Change Conference SB60.
The dialogues are part of our strategy to cultivate continuity, interconnection and concrete action at and between relevant UN Conferences that focus on the climate in Bonn, NY, Baku and Belem, on biodiversity in Cali and on desertification in Riyadh. At each of these convenings we present regenerative agriculture and food systems as an overarching solution that successfully addresses the interconnected challenges of climate chaos, biodiversity loss and desertification.
We presented scalable solutions from around the world that have such overarching impacts and demonstrate how to co-create a new economic mainstream that benefits farmers, companies and countries while and because it regenerates nature and people - what we call Regenerative Value Creation for all stakeholders.
Designed to bring together stakeholders from governments, farmers, financial institutions, leading impact businesses and others, our dialogues showcased already successful initiatives and deliberated about how to scale them with relevant policies, and private and public sector finance approaches.
These dialogues support important ‘non-negotiated outcomes’ that complement the ‘negotiated outcomes’ of official UN negotiations, which are limited by the fact that 200 countries have a veto right on all proposals. This is not the case for non-negotiated outcomes, which can therefore be implemented much more rapidly.
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Some highlights from the week: |
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Action on Food Hub Pavilion launched |
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In Bonn we launched the COP 29 Action on Food Pavilion that unites the COP 28 Food Systems Pavilion, Food4Climate Pavilion and Future Economy Forum Pavilion. While we already began to collaborate at COP28, we now offer an integrated platform to strengthen innovation and collaboration across the whole food systems community. |
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The integral Action on Food Hub will feature three main areas: a plenary space (managed by the Food Systems Partnership), a policy zone (managed by the Food4Climate Community), and a roundtable dialogue space (managed by the Future Economy Forum) |
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This integrated Blue Zone pavilion will provide, at COP 29 in Baku and beyond, more opportunities for the regenerative agriculture and food system community to engage with the international climate negotiations and host countries. The three pavilions and our complementary COP programming will ensure that food systems are more and more recognized as key solutions to the climate crisis. This will support the development of specific policy outcomes and increase the funding to empower the transition to healthier, sustainable, just and resilient food systems for all.
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Financing a Just Transition
to Regenerative Food Systems |
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The “Financing a Just Transition to Regenerative Food Systems through Multi Stakeholder Collaboration” Side Event at SB60 was co-hosted by the Future Economy Forum with partners Sekem, Imaflora, EIT Food and Natural Capitalism Solutions.
The session described how regenerative agriculture can address the climate crisis, and outlined pragmatic initiatives on the ground that are successfully underway globally to promote regenerative agricultural practices.
With examples from Egypt, India, the United States and Brazil, the panel presented tangible cases demonstrating the strong economic case for regenerative agriculture. The session showed how meetings such as COP offer opportunities for stakeholders to engage, to influence policies, and to drive forward solutions at scale.
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Climate Solutions Cruise & Dinner |
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Ayan Najaf, Board Member of the upcoming COP29 in Azerbaijan, keynoted our Climate Solutions Cruise, alongside EIT Food’s Dr. Lucy Wallace and FEF Co-founder, Walter Link. The Solutions Event Series created an inclusive, solutions-focused space for multi-stakeholder dialogue across sectors, in an atmosphere of respectful & constructive connections. The cruise on the beautiful river Rhine offered UN negotiators and diverse stakeholders time to be in nature and with each other to discuss challenges and possible solutions. Participants lingered far into the evening, creating and deepening the kind of relationships that make it easier to implement real solutions. |
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Inaugural Food Systems Roundtable |
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At the Bonn UN Climate Conference, we also co-launched the Food Systems Roundtable with our Brazilian partners. Convened as a partnership with Imaflora, Cebrap Sustentabilidade, Cátedra Josué de Castro, Fundación Avina, NOW Partners Foundation and the Future Economy Forum, we will host the next roundtables at NY Climate Week, the Biodiversity COP in Cali and the Climate COP in Baku.
This first roundtable included such global contributors as Egyptian scientist Thoraya Seada (SEKEM Group), Dr. Million Belay from Ethiopia/Uganda (AFSA), Dr. Lucy Wallace from the United Kingdom (EIT Food), Marcelo A. Boechat Morandi from Brazil (Embrapa), Hunter Lovins from the USA (Natural Capitalism Solutions), Isabel Garcia-Drigo from Brazil (Imaflora) who moderated the debate and the Future Economy Forum’s Walter Link.
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Global Academy Soft Launch |
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Together with international partners such as Sekem and the Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming, the Future Economy Forum and NOW Partners Foundation also launched the Global Academy that integrates theoretical and practical learning opportunities for farmers and multiple stakeholders in regenerative agriculture, food systems and related industries.
The Academy will deliver resources to support research and hands-on understanding of curated agricultural methods from around the world that demonstrate that a new mainstream in agriculture is already being created. We select approaches that create superior incomes for farmers and their communities, strengthen food and water security, the soil, biodiversity, health and the climate. The Academy will support these approaches to scale systematically and internationally. |
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EoL Whole System, High Quality
Carbon Credits |
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How Sekem’s regenerative agriculture work inspired a Whole System Carbon Credit program.
EoL Whole System Carbon Credits present a market-based solution that improves farmer livelihood as it fosters food security, community health & biodiversity while reversing climate change. |
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Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming |
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Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming is a government-sponsored, community-based initiative that is already transitioning 1 million farmers from chemical to natural farming methods. It delivers significant improvements in productivity, biodiversity, community health, and climate resilience. |
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Bonn to the Amazon COP 30 in Belem, 2025 |
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Future Economy Forum events are designed to ensure ongoing action - bringing continuity, collaboration and sustained impact beyond one-off events. With our partners, our long term UN Conference strategies deliver interventions throughout 2024 and towards COP30 in Belem, Brazil in 2025. Learn more about our upcoming Solutions Dialogues & Innovation Labs to be held in conjunction with UN summits in New York, Cali, Baku, Riyadh and Belem. |
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Warm greetings from our Future Economy Forum team, including
Helmy Abouleish, Hunter Lovins, Laura Santucci, Merijn Dols and Walter Link
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From our launch at COP 27, our partner organizations have included: |
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