Actions submitted via this form will be presented on the website of the COP27 Climate Agreement on Food and Farming (climateagreementfoodfarming.org).
UN countries represented by national government bodies (e.g. Ministeries) can sign this Pledge by filling in this form and selecting 4 items to specify the pledge. Also states/provinces with over 10 million inhabitants can sign. If you have any questions, email to info@climateagreementfoodfarming.org
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Signatories commit to:
As a signatory, we sign this Climate Agreement on Food and Farming:
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We commit to:
A. Updating the Climate Agreement on Food and Farming website * (ready mid October 2022) annually with existing and
new Food and Farm policies and relevant National Determined Contributions.
B. Participating in annual virtual (FAO) meeting to share progress and discuss monitor reports.
C. Inviting other countries to sign this Climate Agreement on Food & Farming too.
D. Taking at least two actions on Food and two on Farming, put in place by end 2025, that
substantially help to realise the 2030 reduction goals:
A. Reducing food or farm related GHG emissions at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030
B. Taking at least two actions on Food and two on Farming that help realise the 2030-goals:
Farming actions (we take at least two voluntary actions):
1. Offer financial incentives to animal farmers to reduce their herd sizes.
2. Provide financial incentives and resources (i.e., training, natural fertilizers, supplies etc.) to farmers
to reduce GHG-emissions. Many approaches can be deployed, eg agroecological or regenerative
methods, like crop rotation, low-tillage, multi-strata planting, organic farming.
3. Legislate, monitor, and enforce maximum methane emissions from farms.
4. Ban the import and export of key agricultural commodities where these products have been linked
to deforestation.
5. Apply the pollution pays principle on GHG emissions at the farm level or import.
6. Reduce agriculture subsidies that contribute to high greenhouse gas emissions.
7. Increase and encourage investments in low-carbon, climate resilient farming.
Food actions (we take at least 2 voluntary actions):
1. Establish national and per capita reduction goals for animal-based food consumption.
2. Start education campaigns on the environmental and health benefits of plant-predominant diets.
This could include a requirement that supermarkets display sustainability ratings of food purchases, or
carbon footprint data or true pricing data incl. CO2-costs.
3. Eliminate or reduce consumer taxes on vegetables and fruits or subsidize plant based food.
4. Reduce public procurement of animal-based products, promote institutional plant-forward eating
(e.g by joining the Cool Food Pledge for public bodies or serve climate neutral food products).
5. Legislation to restrict marketing and junk pricing of food products with a very high carbon
footprint, e.g. bans for selling protein rich food at prices lower than normal retail cost prices.
6. Create a tax on high carbon footprint food products to reflect their external costs on climate,
environment and human health. Tax revenues could be used to finance farmers to reduce GHG emissions, improve animal welfare or sustainability standards; or transition to plant farming (or rewild if plant farming is not possible). Or include livestock GHG-emissions into ETS.
7. Legislation or pricing policies for supermarkets/retail to reduce food related GHG-emissions by at
least 30% by 2030 (scope 3 emissions).
8. Encourage prevention of food waste from high carbon food products, e.g. by legislation for smaller
portions of meat in catering/restaurants and smaller packaging of meat in retail.
9. Encourage or legislate the 25% increase in uptake of vegetable proteins like lupine, wheat, beans,
seaweed or rice as low carbon substitutes in mixed meat products like minced meat or hamburgers.
