Deadlines Approaching for AIM for Climate Components - Southeast AgNet
Deadlines Approaching for AIM for Climate Components - Southeast AgNET
Some important deadlines are coming up for USDA climate programs. Rod Bain has more in today’s This Land of Ours Report.
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What’s the latest news from the agriculture innovation mission for climate? The US-United Arab Emirates co-chaired AIM for Climate Initiative sponsors a webinar the last week of September on the food systems and agriculture innovation agenda highlighting the upcoming United Nations COP 28 Ministerial. And as Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack noted at a recent foreign policy food forum:
“There’s a deadline. We’re submitting the next Iteration of Innovation Sprints September 29 It’s also the deadline for new government partnerships. We have 53 countries that are now participating in AIM for Climate. We want to make sure that additional partners get their willingness to join with us prior to September 29,” Secretary Vilsack said.
Dialogue on innovations and progress continues about getting for climate partners. According to UAE Minister for Climate Change and the Environment Miriam Almheiri.
“To be able to share and say we’ve got this innovation here we’ve got the seed that works here. This is for me the true essence of what AIM for Climate is all about,” she said.
Rod Bain reporting for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate economics
Climate change is now a driver of the world’s economy. The impact is profound:
- Catastrophic weather events — hurricanes, floods, droughts, high temperatures — are more frequent and more extreme. The cost can be measured in both the initial damage caused and the longer-term impact on the economy.
- Vulnerable communities are increasing climate-related investments, hardening infrastructure and taking other protective measures.
- Investment in carbon capture and storage technologies is increasingly rapidly.
- Governments are making investments and crafting regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
On top of all of this is the cost of uncertainty. As the Fourth National Climate Assessment, released in 2018 by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, says, “The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent past is no longer valid.”