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Add to Preferred SourcesMore than 300 global and regional leaders, government representatives, executive officers of multinational companies, civil society, practitioners, farmers, producers and indigenous leaders gathered last week at the Good Growth Conference in Peru to step up ambition and take concrete actions to promote sustainable production of agricultural commodities, responsible for an estimated 70% of tropical deforestation worldwide.
The conference was timely with the recent IPBES report calling for a profound transformation to conserve, restore and use nature in a sustainable way to avoid planetary collapse. The study revealed that between 1980 and 2000 more than 100 million hectares of tropical forests were lost globally.
The Conference held within the framework of the Good Growth Partnership led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Conservation International (CI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), enabled by the support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with support of the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECo), and the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GiZ). Designed and led by UNDP’s Green Commodities Programme, to shine a spotlight on some of the world’s most important landscapes and agriculture commodity producing nations and aimed to inspire new understandings and foster meaningful global connections while equipping participants with the network and tools needed to influence the way we produce, finance and demand food.
In the week-long conference, representatives of multinational companies, producers and local communities, NGOs and governments agreed that systemic transformation in the commodities sector can only be achieved through increasingly innovative and stronger collaborations. Delegates contributed to national and international thinking around how collective and approaches to demand, production and financing of sustainable commodities can accelerate impact toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Original source: UNDP
Published on 24 May 2019