Session 2: Advancing solutions for a productive, sustainable and resilient agriculture
Jul 3, 2025 | 7:30 AM - 9:00 AMAuditorium
Jul 3, 2025 | 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Auditorium
Description
Agriculture is both a major contributor to climate change and one of the sectors most vulnerable to its impacts. Agricultural production (including emissions from land use change due to agricultural expansion) contributes to around one-fifth of the global GHG emissions.
In turn, climate change poses challenges for agriculture due to rising temperature, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, and variations in rainfall patterns, among others. Agriculture is also a major consumer of fresh water globally and is closely linked with global biodiversity loss, including through deforestation.
This session will explore what can be done to make agriculture productive, sustainable, and resilient, including through sustainable productivity growth and the adoption of e.g. regenerative practices, agroforestry (e.g. integration of trees into crop and animal farming systems) and nature-based solutions.
The session will also address the role of innovation (e.g. smart technologies to enhance predictability, additives to reduce methane emissions, etc.) and increased productivity to reduce emissions, and the role of policies to address climate change and other environmental objectives.
