What does food have to do with climate change? More than a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is linked to food and reducing emissions from the food sector requires changes at all stages, from producers to consumers.
Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs, are national climate action plans by each country under the Paris Agreement. A country's NDC outlines how it plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to help meet the global goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5C and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The Paris Agreement requires that NDCs are updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition, taking into consideration each country＊s capacity.
Some of the world＊s poorest countries spend more on debt repayments than on health, education and infrastructure combined, severely hampering their chances of developing their economies. At the Summit of the Future, reducing inequality and improving people＊s lives by overhauling the entire international financial system will be high on the agenda.
Can AI governance be harnessed to combat climate change? Read about emerging global policies and their potential for climate action in this piece by the 51勛圖 University.