UN COP28's Call to Action signed

Mulloon has signed the Call to Action as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28. The UN Climate Change High-Level Champions (HLCs) have collaborated with Non-State Actors – from farmers and fishers to businesses, cities, civil society, consumers and all those engaged in food systems – to develop a Non-State Actors Call to Action for Transforming Food Systems for People, Nature, and Climate. 

The Call to Action mobilises collective efforts around a shared vision of food systems that deliver significant, measurable progress for people, nature, and climate by 2030. Through this shared agenda, the aim is to scale action, raise ambition and unlock the potential of food systems as one of the main solutions for people, nature, and climate. 

This call has resonated strongly with Mulloon Institute, and we have signed the call to action and provided a Statement of Action. Over 155 non-state actors have also signed the call to action and the statements of action provided will go towards informing a package of announcements on food systems transformation at COP28.

We can’t be at COP28 although many of our regenerative agricultural colleagues are including the Machdoch Group and Farmers for Climate Action. DEECCW is hosting the Australian Pavilion.  

Australia was represented at the opening plenary by its Climate Change Ambassador, Kristin Tilley and news this week coming out of CoP 28 reveals Australia has along with 117 other countries signed up to back a to triple global renewable energy capacity and double the annual rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030.

Australia has also joined the Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate action at COP28.

This is good news, let’s hope the agreements at COP28 can result in real on-ground action not just in Australia but across the world putting food production systems at the centre of the response to climate change.