FAO’s 1.5°C roadmap for food systems falls short

Cleo Verkuijl; Michael Lazarus

doi:10.1038/s43016-024-00950-x

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The coffee supply chain illustrates transboundary climate risks: Insights on governance pathways

SEI brief / When a crop like coffee links countries together, they also share associated climate risks. This brief details options for managing transboundary climate risks.

26 April 2022 / About Adaptation, Business, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Geopolitics, Mitigation, Public policy and Supply Chains

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What evidence exists on the effects of public policy interventions for achieving environmentally sustainable food consumption? A systematic map protocol

Journal article / This article describes an upcoming Systemic Map Protocol on the evidence of the effects of public policy interventions to achieve sustainable food consumption

25 April 2022 / About Food and agriculture and Public policy

A tool in the toolkit: can true cost accounting remove siloed thinking about food loss and waste?

Other publication / A report from the Global Food Security Policy Lab explores using True Cost Accounting to support collaborative efforts to help reduce food loss and waste.

23 March 2022 / About Food and agriculture, Supply Chains and Sustainable Development Goals

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Q&A: Introducing the Commodity Footprints dashboard

Feature / The tool's creators explain how the free interactive dashboard can be used to visualize data on the global environmental impacts of consumption and production.

21 March 2022 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use, Supply Chains and Sustainable Development Goals

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Unique data platform brings transparency to global maritime trade, supports efforts to decarbonize sector

Press release / Global Shipping Watch delivers information on cargo transported by individual vessels, the companies that own the cargo, and greenhouse gas emissions.

15 March 2022 / About Business, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Supply Chains and Transport

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SEI scientists to UK: How to account for the “production gap” in future oil and gas leasing decisions

Feature / SEI scientists Ploy Achakulwisut and Peter Erickson advise a UK agency how the fossil fuel production gap informs the potential sale of new oil and gas leases.

3 March 2022 / About Climate policy, Fossil fuels and Public policy

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Effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (Afya credits incentive) to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial

Journal article / This article assesses the impact of a project in Kenya that made cash transfers to retain women in antenatal care, delivery at facility and postnatal care.

26 January 2022 / About Behaviour and choice and Wellbeing

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COVID-19 Driven Adaptations in the Provision of School Meals in the Baltic Sea Region

Journal article / A new research paper reviews how school canteens in five Baltic Sea countries adapted to the COVID-19 crisis.

19 January 2022 / About Disaster Risk, Food and agriculture, Innovation and Supply Chains

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The inequality-emissions link and what it means for the 1.5°C goal

SEI brief / This report highlights the methods used to calculate the chasm in carbon emissions between the world's richest and poorest populations.

10 January 2022 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Pollution, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles