G20 Environment, climate and energy meeting: Which priorities? (ISPI Newsletter)

ISPI published an article in its newsletter on the G20 Environment and Energy Ministers meeting July 22-23. In the meeting, experts attempted to answer the following questions:  How to achieve the ecological transition? How to tackle climate change? What are the opportunities for a sustainable and inclusive recovery? Director General Johan Swinnen said, “The number of people facing hunger increased by 120-160 million in 2020, a staggering increase of 20 percent. The world was already off-track to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 before the pandemic, with hunger on the rise and climate change impacts significantly slowing agricultural productivity growth. Building climate-resilient food systems and reducing GHG emissions from agriculture are thus urgent priorities. An important first step is a concerted G20 effort to redirect the more than US$700 billion per annum in agricultural support measures toward R&D in productivity-enhancing and emission-reducing technologies, and incentives to producers and consumers to adopt sustainable and healthy practices.”