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Tracking climate accountability

The pressure is mounting for corporations to be transparent about their contribution to the climate crisis. Legal actions against major livestock companies for false climate claims are on the rise, with the New York Attorney General suing the world’s largest meat producer JBS for misleading consumers about the company’s net-zero plans as the most recent example.

Five tests for the FAO’s plan to end hunger and slash greenhouse gas emissions

The following opinion by Emile Frison, panel expert with the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), and Sophia Murphy, executive director of IATP was originally published by Future World News on February 28. 

IATP reacts to FAO’s Achieving SDG2 without Breaching the 1.5C Threshold: A Global Roadmap

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, in response to the launch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s launch of its anticipated Roadmap to achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5˚ C Threshold: A Global Roadmap, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Executive Director Sophia Murphy, Ph.D., issued the following statement:

Centering food security in the fight to avert climate catastrophe: the UN FAO proposes a Roadmap

Video interview: An inside look into the CFS with IATP

This week, IATP Executive Director Sophia Murphy is in Rome at the United Na

A week in the life of the climate movement

In mid-September, New York hosted Climate Week NYC, an annual fixture hosted by an international nonprofit called the Climate Group in partnership with the United Nations (U.N.) and New York City.

Climate action versus corporate greenwashing at the U.N. Climate Summit

The United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York this week will be flooded with new corporate announcements and initiatives.

Building the food systems of Least Developed Countries

In early March, the government of Qatar played host to the 5th United Nations Conference for Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

[Watch] Water and Nutrition. Harmonizing Actions between the Water and Nutrition Decade.

Watch a recording of the March 22 side event, "Water and Nutrition. Harmonizing Actions between the Water and Nutrition Decade. What does it take?" at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference. IATP's Shiney Varghese discussed agroecological transitions during this conversation on harmonizing actions for the U.N.

Synergies among agroecological transitions and the UN Decades on Water and Nutrition

The United Nations 2023 Water Conference — formally known as the 2023 Conference for the Midterm Comprehensive Review of Implementation of the U.N. Decade for Action on Water and Sanitation (2018-2028) — takes place in New York this week, from March 22-24, 2023, nearly five decades after the first U.N.