Food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste account for a third of total global greenhouse gas emissions, but just 3% of public climate finance goes to transforming our food systems.
Together with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Climate Focus has assessed the amount of public climate finance being channeled to climate actions in food systems. The report, Untapped Opportunities: Climate Financing for Food Systems Transformation, presents the case for food systems as a climate solution and priority, with recommendations for action. This includes the need to align public financial flows to food systems with climate ambition and action plans, and channelling public climate finance into food systems to support policies, programs, and projects that deliver on climate goals and a host of co-benefits for biodiversity, health, and food system resilience.
This report is designed to inform policy development and implementation, climate advocacy, and climate finance structures, with clear recommendations and opportunities for directing climate finance to food systems as a climate solution.
