COP28 leaders: Food and gender key ingredients to climate solutions – National Observer

November 27th 2023

In a year characterized by some of the hottest temperatures and most extreme weather events in human history and rapidly rising global hunger, international political action to reimagine our food system has never been more urgent.

Action to secure a climate-resilient, feminist food future — where women and all genders are equally empowered to shape the food system — is essential for ending world hunger and sustaining the planet.

Now is a pivotal time to reimagine how we govern, produce and consume in a feminist and climate-resilient way. The United Nations 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), beginning on Nov. 30, will bring together leaders from nearly 200 countries in Dubai to assess global progress on our climate goals, identify gaps and reassert ambition for climate action.

Since 1995, COPs have proven that countries can set aside their differences to collectively solve climate change. Most notably would be the Paris Agreement, the near-universal international commitment to drastically reduce global emissions.

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