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Browsing: IFAD President Climate
- World leaders meet at UNGA to address climate crisis and rescue Sustainable Development Goals.
- IFAD President emphasizes climate adaptation, food security, and resilience investment.
- G20 leaders support IFAD’s fight against food insecurity, and IFAD seeks funding to transform rural lives and combat poverty and hunger.
World leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), to rebuild trust, reignite solidarity among nations and rescue the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This includes rescuing Sustainable Development Goals for Zero Hunger and No Poverty. Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), warns of the dire and irreversible effects that the climate crisis will have on hunger and poverty if sound adaptation measures are not taken quickly.
Calls for climate change adaptation at UNGA 2023
“The climate crisis hinders our efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty. The growing global population is dependent on a …