Driving Multi-Level Action for the Transition to a Low-Carbon Future in Agriculture

Background:

As the world strives to combat climate change while simultaneously feeding a growing population, promoting regenerative agricultural practices that can restore soils and enhance carbon stocks is crucial. This side event at COP28 aims to highlight the importance of a sustainable transition in agriculture with experts fostering multi-level stakeholder action from the field, within policymaking, and in finance and technology.

Session objectives:

1. To bring together a diverse group of stakeholders’ perspectives at various levels including policy development, farmers as businesses and operators, ag industry players, and finance and technology providers to identify pathways for decarbonization in agriculture
2. Highlight real-world success stories, initiatives and technologies that are currently advancing sustainable and low-carbon agriculture in Ukraine
3. Encourage partnerships and collaborative commitments to support Ukraine’s efforts in reducing agricultural emissions and turning soils into carbon sinks
4. Inspire and mobilise participants to champion low-carbon approaches, policies, and collective action

Key themes and topics

• Multilevel approaches to decarbonisation in agriculture
  • Identify the specific actions from each institutional and stakeholder perspective to support the transition to low-carbon agriculture
  • Case studies / action of successful regenerative agriculture initiatives in Ukraine
• Benefits, challenges, and opportunities in scaling the transition to regenerative agriculture practices
  • Highlight the benefits of regenerative agriculture and soil health to mitigate and adapt to climate change, restore biodiversity, improve water resiliency, enhance food security
  • Highlight the challenges of farmers’ transition: finance & knowledge
  • Highlight the opportunities: Policy frameworks, technology, finance, evolving standards
• Collaboration and Commitments
  • Examples and case studies of partnerships and cross-collaboration to support Ukranian low-carbon journey
• Policy implications and advocacy
  • EU Integration, Common Agriculture Policy and carbon farming
  • Article 6

Target Audience:

• Policymakers
• Farmers and agricultural industry representatives
• Researchers and academics
• International organizations and NGOs
• Climate and agriculture experts
• General public interested in sustainable agriculture

Expected Outcomes:

• Increased awareness of decarbonization efforts in Ukrainian agriculture
• Identification of concrete actions and partnerships to reduce agricultural emissions and enhance carbon sequestration
• Knowledge sharing and capacity building among attendees

Participation:

Participation in this side event is open to all COP28 delegates and observers in the Blue Zone interested in addressing the intersection of agriculture and climate change.

Moderator: Paul Benjamin, BloombergNEF

• Alessandro Cataldo, EY Parthenon Senior Partner and Agribusiness lead
• Anton Yarotsky, Ukranian Farmer, Pidgirne Farms (Virtually joining)
• Erica Johnson, Sustainability Affairs Officer, Agreena
• Marta Trofimova, Head of Sustainability, KERNEL
• Oleksandra Avramenko, Head of European Integration at the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (Virtually joining)
• Gianpiero Nacci, Director Sustainable Business and Infrastructure, Climate Strategy and Delivery, EBRD – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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