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Speech of FAO Director-General, Dr. QU Dongyu, at G20 Leaders’ Summit 2021
Session II: Climate Change and Environment
31 October 2021

Excellences,
I would like to thank the Italy G20 presidency for its commitment to food security and wise leadership in launching the Food Coalition and G20 Green Garden.

The climate crisis, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss are threatening agri-food systems globally.

Related weather extremes, conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies, and the pandemic, are major drivers of food insecurity and poverty.

We are not on track to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degree C.

Climate change will compromise our ability to produce sufficient amounts of nutritious foods.

It will also increase poverty and deepen inequalities.

The urgency for climate action is stronger than ever!

We have only nine agricultural seasons to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs.

We must transform our agri-food systems to be more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable.

Agri-food systems with a decisive role for the “5 Fs”: Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel and Friendly Environment are crucial to improve people’slivelihoods, especially of farmers, and for gender and youth empowerment.

Policymakers must feed the world and save the planet at the same time. We need to produce more (quantity, food diversity with higher quality) with less (inputs of resources, impacts on the environment)!

FAO has been promoting the sustainable use of land, water, soil and marine resources for food security and health wellbeing, and for maintaining harmony with nature.

FAO’s new Strategic Framework supports Members on the transformation of agri-food systems for Better production, Better nutrition, a Better environment and a Better life for all, leaving no one behind.

Green and climate resilient agriculture is an integral part of our Strategic Framework.

Supported by key FAO Initiatives like the Hand-in-Hand Initiative, based on strong and effective partnerships to improve the agri-food potential of countries.

And the Green Cities Initiative aimed at enhancing urban greener environments and better agri-food systems.

FAO takes a holistic approach to agri-food systems, recognizing the critical inter-linkage between people, planet and prosperity, for efficiency and sustainability.

The new Strategic Framework builds on scientific evidence to ensure that agri-food systems are contributors to lower greenhouse gas emissions, while increasing socio-economic and environmental benefits.

To ensure countries receive the required financial support to address the climate crisis and implement their sustainability pathways.

Rural development must be at the top of national development priorities,

With the objective of the SDGs, especially SDG 2, 1 and 10, mitigating and adapting to the impacts of the climate crisis, we are concluding our dialogue in Rome and moving on to Glasgow where we must commit to ambitious action on climate and agri-environment: the 4Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle and replace) and the rules of mathematics (minus, plus, divide and multiple) are our basic guidance.

Politicians need to take stronger leadership, People need to take the ownership and all society must work in coherent partnership based on science and innovation.

We must believe in science, learn science and apply science; we must innovate our business model - sci-tech and methodology are our ultimate solutions!

Let us roll up our sleeves to walk the talk, together, to collectively support agri-food systems transformation for a better world!




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