Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s vision builds on Brazil’s G-20 agenda that launched last year. It champions the use of climate funds to boost global agricultural production and social protections to better protect countries facing climate change-related hunger.
As world leaders prepare for COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference, the event is being framed by this year’s host country, Brazil, as a historic opportunity to combat hunger.
As world leaders prepare for COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference, the event is being framed by this year’s host country, Brazil, as a historic opportunity to combat hunger.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s vision builds on Brazil’s G-20 agenda that launched last year. It champions the use of climate funds to boost global agricultural production and social protections to better protect countries facing climate change-related hunger.
Brazil’s focus on food security is welcome, especially as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and shifting agricultural growing seasons—exacerbated by climate change—are undermining global livelihoods and food access, and as international targets for hunger, food security, and malnutrition are well off-track.
But there’s a dangerous omission in Brazil’s vision: conflict.
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