The latest round of UN climate talks (COP28) yielded the first international agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. But it wasn't all good news: action on adaptation and climate finance were lacking.
COP28 saw six major breakthroughs in the food sector aimed at tackling the climate impacts of food systems, reducing food waste, ending global hunger and more.
Agriculture and food were very much on the menu at COP28 in Dubai, with both voluntary pledges and negotiated texts reflecting their role in climate change.
But critics say the food systems roadmap doesn’t go far enough in tackling ‘the massive power inequalities imposed by the handful of companies that define what we grow and eat’.