Session 2: Advancing solutions for a productive, sustainable and resilient agriculture
Jul 3, 2025 | 7:30 AM - 9:00 AMAuditorium
Jul 3, 2025 | 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Auditorium
Description
Agriculture is both a major contributor to climate change and one of the sectors most vulnerable to its impacts. Agricultural production (including emissions from land use change due to agricultural expansion) contributes to around one-fifth of global GHG emissions. At the same time, agriculture faces mounting challenges due to rising temperatures, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, and variations in rainfall patterns, among others. Agriculture is also a major consumer of fresh water globally and is closely linked with global biodiversity loss, particularly through deforestation.
This session will explore what can be done to make agriculture more productive, sustainable, and resilient, including through sustainable productivity growth, regenerative practices such as agroforestry, and nature-based solutions. It will also examine how innovation (e.g. smart technologies that improve forecasting, feed additives to reduce methane emissions, etc.) and increased productivity can help reduce the sector’s emissions, and the role of policies to address climate change and other environmental objectives.
Session 2 Key resources for this session
Agriculture
Climate change adaptation policies to foster resilience in agriculture
Policy paper
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Agriculture
Reorienting budgetary support to agriculture for climate change mitigation
Policy paper
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Sustainable forest management
A survey of GHG mitigation policies for the AFOLU sector
Policy paper
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Agriculture
Enabling agriculture’s transformative capacity to respond to climate change in the long run
Working paper
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