WE, HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT:
Recognizing that unprecedented adverse climate impacts are increasingly threatening the resilience of agriculture and food systems as well as the ability of many, especially the most vulnerable, to produce and access food in the face of mounting hunger, malnutrition, and economic stresses;
Recognizing the profound potential of agriculture and food systems to drive powerful and innovative responses to climate change and to unlock shared prosperity for all;
Underscoring the need to progressively realize the right to adequate food in the context of national food security as well as the need to ensure access to safe, sufficient, affordable, and nutritious food for all;
Noting that agriculture and food systems are fundamental to the lives and livelihoods of billions of people, including smallholders, family farmers, fisherfolk and other producers and food workers;
Noting the essential role of international and multi-stakeholder cooperation, including South-South and Triangular cooperation, financial and funding institutions, trade, and non-state actors in responding to climate change;
Reaffirming our respective commitments, collective and individual, to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and the Sharm El Sheikh Joint Work on implementation of climate action in agriculture and food security; as well as noting the UN Food Systems Summit;
Recalling also the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, acknowledging that they are the primary international, intergovernmental forums for negotiating the global response to climate change;
Recalling the findings of recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments as well as noting the Synthesis report by the co-facilitators on the technical dialogue of the first global stocktake;
We stress that any path to fully achieving the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement must include agriculture and food systems.
We affirm that agriculture and food systems must urgently adapt and transform in order to respond to the imperatives of climate change.
WE DECLARE OUR INTENT TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY TO PURSUE THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES:
1. Scaling-up adaptation and resilience activities and responses in order to reduce the vulnerability of all farmers, fisherfolk, and other food producers to the impacts of climate change, including through financial and technical support for solutions, capacity building, infrastructure, and innovations, including early warning systems, that promote sustainable food security, production and nutrition, while conserving, protecting and restoring nature.
2. Promoting food security and nutrition by increasing efforts to support vulnerable people through approaches such as social protection systems and safety nets, school feeding and public procurement programs, targeted research and innovation, and focusing on the specific needs of women, children and youth, Indigenous Peoples, smallholders, family farmers, local communities and persons with disabilities, among others;
3. Supporting workers in agriculture and food systems, including women and youth, whose livelihoods are threatened by climate change, to maintain inclusive, decent work, through context-appropriate approaches which could include increasing, adapting and diversifying incomes;
4. Strengthening the integrated management of water in agriculture and food systems at all levels to ensure sustainability and reduce adverse impacts on communities that depend on these inter-related areas;
5. Maximize the climate and environmental benefits – while containing and reducing harmful impacts – associated with agriculture and food systems by conserving, protecting and restoring land and natural ecosystems, enhancing soil health, and biodiversity, and shifting from higher greenhouse gas-emitting practices to more sustainable production and consumption approaches, including by reducing food loss and waste and promoting sustainable aquatic blue foods;
To achieve these aims – according to our own national circumstances – we commit to expedite the integration of agriculture and food systems into our climate action and, simultaneously, to mainstream climate action across our policy agendas and actions related to agriculture and food systems.
IN FULFILLING THIS COMMITMENT, BY 2025 WE INTEND TO STRENGTHEN OUR RESPECTIVE AND SHARED EFFORTS TO:
1. Pursue broad, transparent, and inclusive engagement, as appropriate within our national contexts, to integrate agriculture and food systems into National Adaptation Plans, Nationally Determined Contributions, Long-term Strategies, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, and other related strategies before the convening of COP30.
2. Revisit or orient policies and public support related to agriculture and food systems to promote activities which increase incomes, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and bolster resilience, productivity, livelihoods, nutrition, water efficiency and human, animal and ecosystem health while reducing food loss and waste, and ecosystem loss and degradation.
3. Continue to scale-up and enhance access to all forms of finance from the public, philanthropic and private sectors – including through blended instruments, public-private partnerships and other aligned efforts – to adapt and transform agriculture and food systems to respond to climate change.
4. Accelerate and scale science and evidence-based innovations – including local and indigenous knowledge – which increase sustainable productivity and production of agriculture and related emerging domains, promote ecosystem resilience and improve livelihoods, including for rural communities, smallholders, family farmers and other producers.
5. Strengthen the rules-based, non-discriminatory, open, fair, inclusive, equitable and transparent multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core.
With seven years remaining to achieve our shared goals, we intend to strengthen collaboration among our respective ministries – including agriculture, climate, energy, environment, finance, and health – and with diverse stakeholders to achieve the objectives and efforts articulated in this Declaration, and as appropriate within our national contexts.
To maintain momentum, we intend to benefit from relevant regional and global convenings in order to share experiences and to accelerate national and collaborative action. We will review our collective progress next year at COP29 with a view to considering next steps in 2025 and beyond.
Signatures:
1. Republic of Albania
2. Principality of Andorra
3. Republic of Angola
4. Antigua and Barbuda
5. Republic of Armenia
6. Commonwealth of Australia
7. Republic of Austria
8. Republic of Azerbaijan
9. Commonwealth of the Bahamas
10. Kingdom of Bahrain
11. People’s Republic of Bangladesh
12. Barbados
13. Republic of Belarus
14. Kingdom of Belgium
15. Belize
16. Republic of Benin
17. Kingdom of Bhutan
18. Bosnia and Herzegovina
19. Federative Republic of Brazil
20. Negara Brunei Darussalam
21. Republic of Bulgaria
22. Burkina Faso
23. Republic of Burundi
24. Republic of Cabo Verde
25. Kingdom of Cambodia
26. Canada
27. Republic of Chad
28. Republic of Chile
29. People’s Republic of China
30. Republic of Colombia
31. Union of the Comoros
32. Republic of Costa Rica
33. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
34. Republic of Croatia
35. Republic of Cyprus
36. Czech Republic (Czechia)
37. Kingdom of Denmark
38. Commonwealth of Dominica
39. Dominican Republic
40. Republic of Ecuador
41. Arab Republic of Egypt
42. Republic of El Salvador
43. Republic of Equatorial Guinea
44. Republic of Estonia
45. Kingdom of Eswatini
46. Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
47. European Union
48. Republic of Fiji
49. Republic of Finland
50. Republic of France
51. Republic of The Gambia
52. Federal Republic of Germany
53. Republic of Ghana
54. Hellenic Republic (Greece)
55. Grenada
56. Republic of Guatemala
57. Republic of Guinea
58. Republic of Guinea-Bissau
59. Republic of Honduras
60. Hungary
61. Iceland
62. Republic of Indonesia
63. Ireland
64. State of Israel
65. Republic of Italy
66. Jamaica
67. Japan
68. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
69. Republic of Kazakhstan
70. Republic of Kenya
71. Republic of Kiribati
72. Republic of Korea
73. State of Kuwait
74. Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan)
75. Republic of Latvia
76. Republic of Lebanon
77. Kingdom of Lesotho
78. Republic of Lithuania
79. Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
80. Republic of Madagascar
81. Republic of Malawi
82. Malaysia
83. Republic of Maldives
84. Republic of Mali
85. Republic of Malta
86. Islamic Republic of Mauritania
87. Republic of Mauritius
88. United Mexican States (Mexico)
89. Federated States of Micronesia (Federated States of)
90. Republic of Moldova
91. Principality of Monaco
92. Mongolia
93. Montenegro
94. Kingdom of Morocco
95. Republic of Mozambique
96. Republic of Nauru
97. Nepal
98. Kingdom of the Netherlands
99. New Zealand
100. Republic of Nicaragua
101. Federal Republic of Nigeria
102. Niue
103. Republic of North Macedonia
104. Kingdom of Norway
105. Sultanate of Oman
106. Islamic Republic of Pakistan
107. Republic of Palau
108. State of Palestine
109. Republic of Panama
110. Independent State of Papua New Guinea
111. Republic of Peru
112. Republic of the Philippines
113. Republic of Poland
114. Portuguese Republic (Portugal)
115. State of Qatar
116. Romania
117. Russian Federation
118. Republic of Rwanda
119. Independent State of Samoa
120. Republic of Senegal
121. Republic of Serbia
122. Republic of Seychelles
123. Republic of Sierra Leone
124. Republic of Singapore
125. Slovak Republic (Slovakia)
126. Republic of Slovenia
127. Federal Republic of Somalia
128. Kingdom of Spain
129. Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
130. Saint Kitts and Nevis
131. Saint Lucia
132. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
133. Republic of San Marino
134. Republic of the Sudan
135. Republic of Suriname
136. Kingdom of Sweden
137. Swiss Confederation (Switzerland)
138. Syrian Arab Republic
139. Republic of Tajikistan
140. United Republic of Tanzania
141. Kingdom of Thailand
142. Republic of Togo
143. Kingdom of Tonga
144. Republic of Tunisia
145. Republic of Türkiye
146. Turkmenistan
147. Republic of Uganda
148. Ukraine
159. United Arab Emirates
150. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
151. United States of America
152. Oriental Republic of Uruguay
153. Republic of Vanuatu
154. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
155. Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
156. Republic of Yemen
157. Republic of Zambia
158. Republic of Zimbabwe
Fonte: COP28
