Key Messages

• The report proposes a two-phase TCA assessment process: initial national-level assessments to raise awareness, followed by detailed evaluations to prioritize solutions and drive transformative actions.
• Preliminary assessments across 154 countries suggest global hidden costs from agrifood systems exceed 10 trillion 2020 PPP dollars.
• Low-income countries are disproportionately affected by these hidden costs relative to their national incomes.
• There is an urgent need to integrate these hidden costs into decision-making processes to facilitate the transformation of agrifood systems.
• Scaling the application of TCA requires innovations in research, data, and capacity building, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
• This effort aims to enable transparent and consistent decision- and policymaking in agrifood sectors worldwide.

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About GLF Climate 2021

Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate 2021 hybrid conference made a unanimous call for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis.

Attended by 4,386 digital participants from 145 countries, along with 481 in-person participants at the University of Glasgow, the event featured 400 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth, and government leaders.

Across 67 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, and climate talks, GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance – Frontiers of Change explored the potential of three key climate solutions: forest restoration, resilient food systems, and sustainable finance. Messages spread on social media rallied 41.34 million people around concrete ways to address the climate emergency as quickly as possible.

What are the benefits of restoration?

Forest landscape restoration initiatives emphasize different and often partly competing goals, like mitigating climate change, restoring biodiversity, and improving local livelihoods. The session highlights some of the important trade-offs among these goals. It focuses on the need to balance short-term economic benefits and long-term ecological and climate benefits from restoration and how to connect the interests and goals of different stakeholders across scales, from local to global and vice versa, in a fair and equitable fashion.

Resources:

• Whitepaper Forest landscape restoration for climate, nature, and people
• Whitepaper Spanish RESTAURACIÓN DEL PAISAJE FORESTAL PARA EL CLIMA, LA NATURALEZA Y LAS PERSONAS

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Join leaders from the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO), World Agroforestry and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF), Global EverGreening Alliance (Alliance) for the signing of a landmark partnership agreement to restore drylands and drought-prone areas in Asia.

The Landscape Partnership for Asia will contribute to efforts to restore economic and environmentally productive functions of drylands and drought-prone areas to achieve national and global targets for food security, climate mitigation and adaptation, conservation, social equity, bioenergy, governance and economic growth, specifically, to prevent further land degradation, promote carbon storage and protect biodiversity.

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HOST: Sustainable District Association (LTKL)

The Sustainable Districts Association of Indonesia (LTKL) is a collaboration forum established and managed by Indonesian district governments to promote sustainable land and resource use through collective action. The forum – comprising nine ‘Kabupaten Lestari’, or sustainable districts – supports governments with the development and implementation of jurisdiction-wide sustainability policies, strategies and programs.

This session hones in on LKTL’s CommuNature initiative, a district-level effort to spark a bioeconomy via the implementation of nature-based solutions. The initiative centres on income and livelihoods generation via the production of value-added goods from raw materials only available in healthy ecological areas within the districts (forests, river basins, lakes, agricultural areas and coastal regions).

Following an insightful discussion on the project’s aims, implementation and progress, panelists close the session with the launch of the first LTKL jurisdictional profile for Sintang in West Kalimantan.

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The environment, climate change, biodiversity, health, inequality, food security – we face multiple crises. Despite increasing awareness of the interconnectedness of human and planetary well-being, deforestation and ecosystem degradation have not lost their momentum; we are losing biodiversity fast, and, with it, our ability to harness landscape solutions is rapidly diminishing.

This interactive and informative session invites the audience to learn and explore, with scientists and Indigenous Peoples, how to deliver a green, just recovery: how are biodiversity and climate change linked? How can rights-based approaches protect and fully restore ecological functionality? Which policy processes and finances are most urgently needed, and where do the priority areas lie?

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Nature is the basis for our existence, for food security and economic activity in general. Yet it faces ever more pressure from human intervention: intensive agriculture and unregulated fishing, deforestation and mining. This trend needs to be halted, which is only possible if the economy becomes “green” and agriculture more sustainable. That, however, requires the right impulses and a lot of capital. The discussion in this session at GLF Bonn 2020 circles around the question of if and how public funds could be used to promote sustainable production patterns. What should incentives look like? Are there effective tools available? Where are possible pain points? Representatives from NGOs, the private and the public sector take a critical look at these and related issues.

Originally titled “Incentives for a green economy: new means to promote sustainable production methods”, this session hosted by KfW aired on June 5th, 2020 at the GLF Bonn Digital Conference.

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In this inspirational talk at GLF Bonn 2020, Stefan Schmitz, the Executive Director of the Crop Trust, calls on listeners to recognize the interlinkage of our food system and COVID-19, climate, and biodiverstiy loss crises. Dr. Schmitz highlights the centrality of improving crop diversity in improving food security and ecological and economic resilience.

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Hear from European leaders who are campaigning for a green recovery package in the midst of the climate and COVID-19 crises.

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Despite the COVID-19 crisis, the 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change still constitute our best, and only, global road map for the future. This session at GLF Bonn 2020 describes how we can ‘Build Back Better’ in coming months and years from the economic devastation caused by COVID-19, and in particular how we can tackle the combined biodiversity and climate crises through concerted action, leading to The Future We Want.

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“Why are most of the hungry people today farmers? Not because farming leads to deprivation but because an economic model of agriculture is dispossessing the farmers.” Hear from Dr. Vandana Shiva, Scholar and environmental activist at GLF Bonn 2020.

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