The Alliance at COP30

This side event will spotlight food and agriculture as key drivers of climate adaptation and mitigation through NDCs, showcasing pathways and tools that build resilience, secure food and livelihoods, and promote nature-positive, biodiversity-aligned food systems.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: WWF, Alliance

The session aims to showcase how science-based recommendations can accelerate progress towards food systems that promote both planetary and human health.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: Food Nation, Nordic Council of Ministers

As climate change intensifies, pairing rigorous evidence with catalytic finance is more urgent than ever. This gathering will bring together ambassadors, scientists, policymakers, and funders to explore ways to turn research into action and mobilize capital for measurable impacts on livelihoods, using the Amazon as a central case study.

Event type: Reception

Organizers: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Instituto Serrapilheira and Community Jameel.

Discover how improved tropical forages enhance nutrition, reduce methane, and store carbon, and how next-generation digital tools use remote sensing to track soil carbon, land use, and livestock emissions at scale.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: Australia

This workshop would focus on the need for integrated and collaborative policy-making across different sectors and conventions. The goal is to move beyond siloed discussions to create a more unified approach to climate, food, and biodiversity.

Event type: Workshop session

Organizers: ILRI, CIWF, SNV, Global Pulse Confederation, Bread for the World Institute

As climate change threatens rural livelihoods, this session explores how communities can stay and thrive on their land. Hear from local leaders and experts on climate-smart farming, land restoration, and resilience innovations that reduce displacement and empower women and youth to shape their own futures.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM), Action for the Development of the Sahel (ADESA), and Greenworks

Agroecology offers a pathway for non-market approaches, helping countries achieve ambitious climate goals through NDCs and NAPs. Drawing on lessons from farmers, civil society, and national policies, the discussion will spotlight cooperation, capacity-building, integrated strategies, and ways to minimize environmental and social impacts.

Event type: Official SE

Organizers: Alliance, BARCIK, IFOAM, PAN AO, Agroecology coalition

This session explores how smart policies, innovative finance, and private sector partnerships can scale biological solutions that restore soils and cut emissions. Drawing on Brazil’s leadership in bioinputs regulation, it showcases models of regulatory harmonization, blended finance, and market incentives driving sustainable agrifood transformation.

Event type: Side Event 

Organizers: CGIAR; Alliance, Embrapa, Brazil MAPA

Other Speaker: James Stapleton

This webinar explores how BNM technologies can transform farming by linking science, policy, and practice. Discover innovations in phosphorus solubilization, microbial inoculants, and integrated crop-livestock-agroforestry systems that boost soil health, cut input costs, and attract greater investment for sustainable agriculture.

Event type: Workshop / webinar

Other Speaker: James Stapleton

Seed banking is vital for conserving biodiversity, strengthening ecosystems, and addressing climate change.

This year, RBG Kew celebrates 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank, the world’s largest, storing over 2.5 billion seeds from 40,000+ wild plant species.

The anniversary event highlights these achievements and explores future opportunities in seed conservation and global collaboration.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: RBG Kew

Brazil’s National School Feeding Program (PNAE) shows how food procurement can advance food security, rural development, and climate action. Experts, academia, government and civil society will explore PNAE’s economic and environmental impacts, its support for agroecology, local markets, and smallholder resilience.

Event type: Side Event 

Organizers: IFPRI and the Alliance, Instituto Comida do Amanhã; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Rockefeller Foundation; FNDE-National Fund for Educational Development of Brazil and UNIFESSPA-Para

Low-emission food systems and landscapes reduce greenhouse gas emissions while supporting sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods. This session shows how research helps countries identify and act on their highest-impact opportunities for food-system transformation and climate mitigation.

Event type: Side Event

Leaders, local farmers and civil society will explore ways to strengthen territorial governance and family farming in Southeastern Pará. Collaboration across private, research, and community sectors can create sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient food systems in the Amazon.

Event type: Agrizone

Organizers: Plataforma Parceiros pela Amazônia - PPA, Suzano, CIAT, Instituto Fronteiras do Desenvolvimento, Instituto Terroá, a local representative farmer, Uma Concertação pela Amazônia

A plenary highlighting how biodiversity—from soil microbes to native species—supports resilient food systems through regenerative farming, soil restoration, and ecosystem stewardship.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: Food Tank

This roundtable brings together governments, funders, and farmers to share lessons from livestock climate strategies and discuss how to turn commitments into real action.

Event type: Side event

Organizers: ILRI, EDF

A dynamic discussion uncovering the links between livestock, deforestation, conflict, and child malnutrition—and how integrated, sustainable solutions can build healthier, more resilient food systems.

Organizers: WWF

This session explores how climate and nature finance can deliver tangible resilience in fragile contexts—from refugee-hosting areas to drought-affected communities. It highlights ecosystem restoration, clean energy, and landscape-level programs that strengthen food security, livelihoods, and carbon-based financing pathways.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: UNHCR; ECCON Soluções Ambientais; BRICs consortium

A high-level dialogue showcasing how the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Action Platform for Agriculture (PLACA) drives regional cooperation to turn global climate commitments into concrete agricultural action.

Organizers: FAO

This event examines how climate justice and adaptation finance can transform global food systems. Drawing on experiences from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it showcases equitable, scalable financing models for sustainable and regenerative agricultural transitions.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation; IFD; Alliance

Exploring how locally produced Amazonian foods can replace imports to boost nutrition, livelihoods, and sustainability while preserving cultural and biological diversity.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Alliance, ICARDA, TNC, WFP and WMO as external experts to join the session.

Unlocking finance for the Global Goal on Adaptation, this event highlights approaches, partnerships, and country experiences that drive targeted investment in climate-resilient food systems.

Event type: Official SE

Speaker: Sandra Milach

Organizers: Alliance, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Biovision – Foundation for Ecological Development (BV), CGIAR System Organization (CGIAR)

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: Alliance

Current food systems drive climate change and degrade the ecosystems that sustain them. This event explores how agroecological and sustainable aquatic food systems can deliver nutritious diets, strengthen resilience, and inform NDCs.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: Lead – Biovision Foundation (policy expertise) Event partner - Alliance (evidence and cases)

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: ACF/ UN Food Systems Coordination Hub

Animal and aquatic food systems feed billions and support smallholders, women, and youth, yet remain vulnerable and underfunded in climate action. This COP30 session spotlights CGIAR’s climate-smart innovations that cut emissions, boost productivity, and build resilience, showcasing evidence and partnerships to unlock investment and position these sectors at the heart of global climate and food goals.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: ILRI; World Fish

This event will explore how to make climate finance more transparent, aligned, and accessible to local communities. Drawing on insights from workshops in Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Kenya, it will bring together stakeholders to share experiences and identify practical pathways to align finance tracking with NDC goals—ensuring resources reach those on the frontlines of climate change.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: Senegal; Ghana; Kenya; IIED; GIZ; UK; Namati; Tree Aid; Alliance

In the face of climate change, land degradation, and growing food insecurity, regenerative agriculture has emerged as a transformative approach to nourish people and the planet. Unlike conventional methods, regenerative practices help to restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and offset emissions, while also creating economic opportunities for farmers.

This session aims to identify practical and succesful pathways to understand what are the challenges, tradeoffs and opportunities for scaling regenerative agriculture, from incentives that reward diversified, soil-building practices to embedding biodiversity and ecosystem-service metrics into sustainable finance, procurement, and policy.

By fostering dialogue among policymakers, researchers, farmers, and private sector actors, the session aims to generate shared commitments to shift food systems from uniformity to diverse, regenerative models, turning evidence into action.

Event type: Side Event

Organizers: NOW partners foundation; UNCCD COP 16 Presidency; Net-zero