Thumbnail Image

Addressing the climate change and poverty nexus

A coordinated approach in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 100

Author Charles, A., Kalikoski, D. & Macnaughton, A.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-131956-7

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. About 736 million people live in extreme poverty, and the global response to climate change today will determine how we feed future generations. By 2030, UN member countries have committed to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger for people everywhere. As ending poverty and hunger are at the heart of FAO’s work, the organization is helping countries develop and implement evidence-based pro-poor policies, strategies and programmes that promote inclusive growth and sustainable livelihoods, as well as to increase the resilience, adaptive and coping capacity of poor and vulnerable communities to climate change. In order to achieve this, FAO encourages an integrated Climate-Poverty Approach to support policy development and action by policymakers, government officials, local-level institutions, communities, researchers, and development and humanitarian agencies worldwide. The Approach has been developed with insights from many perspectives, and includes not only climate and poverty aspects, but also indigenous, gender, food security, disaster response, resilience, SIDS and coastal community perspectives, among others. With a series of policy recommendations and tools to improve the design, delivery, and results of synergies and linkages between climate mitigation and adaptation, poverty reduction and food security actions, these synergies and linkages can make significant contributions towards achieving both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement targets.

Cite this content as:

Charles, A., Kalikoski, D. & Macnaughton, A. 2019. Addressing the climate change and poverty nexus: a coordinated approach in the context of the 2030 agenda and the Paris agreement. Rome. FAO.


Read on Google Books and buy online

Language English

Also available in:
No results found.

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

  • Thumbnail Image
    Project
    Addressing Challenges and Opportunities at the Heart of the Climate Change, Migration and Rural Livelihoods Nexus - GCP/GLO/448/IRE 2024
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    Climate change and food security are complex, intertwined processes, whose interaction has profound implications on human mobility. Rural people are exceptionally vulnerable to climate change impacts owing to their strong dependency on climate sensitive livelihoods and natural resources. Rural areas therefore appear to be at higher risk of climate induced migration, as is the case for Zimbabwe and other countries in Southern Africa. Despite increased evidence of climate induced migration and its relevance for rural areas, there is still a lack of policy coherence and coordination across sectors. This limits the adoption of comprehensive approaches to climate mobility that can tackle the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of climate change, migration and rural livelihoods. Through this project, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aimed at addressing this policy and programmatic gap, generating knowledge and strengthening capacities to ultimately address the root causes of climate induced mobility while harnessing the contribution of migration to climate adaptation.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet
    FAO’s work on climate change: Leaving no one behind. Addressing climate change for a world free of poverty and hunger 2016
    Also available in:
    Poverty is one of the biggest obstacles to human development and economic growth. About 2.1 billion people still live in poverty and 900 million are extreme poor. Most of them live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and rural livelihoods for their income and food security.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (stand-alone)
    Managing climate risks through social protection
    Reducing rural poverty and building resilient agricultural livelihoods
    2019
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    FAO recognizes that those living in rural areas whose livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources, are disproportionately affected by climate risks because of their great likelihood of living in high-risk geographical locations as well as their high vulnerability to, and limited capacity to cope with, climate hazards due to low incomes, lack of savings, weaker social networks, low asset bases and heavy reliance on agriculture and natural resources. Protecting poor and vulnerable small scale producers from the negative impacts of climate risks is an imperative in order to reach FAO’s strategic objectives and achieve Sustainable development goal one and two. Managing Climate risks through social protection sheds light on social protection as an effective investment to safeguard the livelihood of small scale producers and strengthen their essential role in ensuring food security across the globe.
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

No results found.