Stockholm+50: A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity

2-3 June 2022. Stockholm+50

Stockholm+50 commemorates the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and celebrates 50 years of global environmental action. By recognizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling the Earth’s triple planetary crisis – climate, nature, and pollution – the international meeting aims to drive action toward a healthy planet for the prosperity of all.

02/05 A Green and Climate Resilient Transformation of Agri-food Systems for People and the Planet

Organizers: FAO, UNDP, UNEP, Belize, Liberia, United Kingdom, and Uruguay
Livestream: Watch Live

Summary: The event featured a discussion among multiple stakeholders how to implement and ensure synergies between global commitments and frameworks to transform agri-food systems to be more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable.

• H.E. Nelson Adrián Peña Robaina (Minister of the Environment, Uruguay)
• Maria Helena Semedo (FAO Deputy Director-General)
• H.E. Jeanine Milly Cooper (Minister of Agriculture, Liberia)
  She mentioned the DeSIRA project IRFFS : Integrated Rice-fish Farming: A Research and Extension Development Based Initiative to Improve Food Security and Nutrition in Liberia
• Elizabeth Mrema (Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity)
  
• H.E. Janine Coye Felson (Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative for the Permanent Mission of Belize to the United Nations and the Lead on Climate Finance and Oceans for Alliance of Small Island States)
• Cécile Ndjebet (Founder and President African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests in Cameroun, Wangari Maathai Forest Champion 2022)
• Tarcila Rivera Zea (Founder and President of CHIRAPAQ, Centre for Indigenous Cultures of Peru, founder of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas and the International Forum of Indigenous Women)
• Hannah Ashley (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK)
• Cherrie Atilano (Founding Farmer, CEO and President of AGREA Agricultural Systems International)
• Jyotsna Puri (Associate Vice-President, Strategy and Knowledge Department, IFAD)

02/05 Nature-based restoration & multipurpose use of rangelands

Organizers: Government of Mongolia, WWF, IUCN, ILRI, FAO, IYRP International Support Group
Livestream: Watch Live

Summary: The event strengthened nature-based solutions to accelerate ecosystem restoration in rangelands through a human rights-based approach, and to ensure fair and sustainable benefit sharing for pastoralists and other users of rangelands.

• H.E. Janabazar Tuvdendorj (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Kingdom of Sweden)
• Enkhbat Altangerel (Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia)
• Fernando Magadelo Mas (Ministry for Ecological Transition of Spain)
• Bruno Oberle (IUCN)
• Anders Oskal (World Reindeer Herders)
• Maamankhu Sodhom (World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples Regional Representative for Central Asia)
• Hussein Wario (Centre for Research & Development in Drylands)
• Harouna Abarchi (Pastoralist Association Nodde Nooto)
• Fiona Flintan (ILRI)
• Pradeep Kurukulasuriya (UNDP)
• Maria Helena Semedo (FAO)

02/06 Transforming Agricultural Innovation Systems by 2030: The Agriculture Breakthrough

Organizers: UK Foreign Commonwealth Development Office, the CGIAR
Summary: The side-event brought together action-oriented stakeholders that focus on transforming agricultural innovation for people, nature and climate and outline challenges and opportunities to accelerate action.

Moderator(s): Ana Maria Loboguerrero (Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa)

• Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith (UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
• Ban Ki-Moon (Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens), video message
• Rachel Lambert (UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
• Joao Campari (WWF International)
• Joanna Purcell (World Food Program)

03/06 Global Kick-off of the EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission: Building consensus and setting clear food system targets for people and planet

Organizers: EAT, The Lancet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Harvard University, OneCGIAR
Summary: EAT is launching EAT-Lancet 2.0 for publication in 2024 and will kick off this collaborative scientific update with an introduction to the work of the newest Commission at Stockholm+50. Focused on building scientific consensus among a diversity of food system actors—from production to consumption—this event will introduce the goals of the Commission and celebrate the multiple local food system pathways that can enable us to achieve the global goals.

• Gunhild Stordalen (EAT)
• Shakuntala Thilsted (Worldfish)
• Johan Rockström (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
• Walter Willett (Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health)
• Tamara Lucas (The Lancet)
• Ali Mandhry (Chef’s Manifesto)
• Ana Maria Hernandez (IPBES)
• Sophie Healy-Thow (Scaling Up Nutrition Movement)
• Dominic Waughray (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
• H.E. Mariam Bint Mohammed Almheiri (UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment)

03/06 Indigenous Peoples' food and knowledge systems: solutions on sustainability, conservation and restoration

Organizers: UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and the World Reindeer Herders (WRH)
Summary: The discussion will focus on the potential contributions of Indigenous Peoples’ biocentric/biocultural restoration of land, providing a unique opportunity to move towards more sustainable food systems for all while rooting in an approach that fully respects Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, rights, values, and cultures.