Access to climate finance
At a time where climate finance in the agriculture and land use sector is urgently needed, FAO is committed to supporting countries to unlock their growth potential and promote climate action for more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.
FAO supports countries with access to finance through several funding channels including the Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility and Adaptation Fund, and through bilateral funding and support setting up carbon projects.
FAO draws on its strong field presence and in-depth understanding of policies and procedures to assist countries with the development and implementation of hundreds of country-led projects on adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, combatting land and forest degradation, sustainable forest management and disaster risk reduction helping them turn their climate ambitions into actions.
How FAO supports
Latest publications
Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems
10/12/2023
The amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish vis-à-vis global climate finance flows. Agriculture is one of the sectors with the highest adaptation finance needs for implementing the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) but climate finance for adaptation is also on a downward trend. The diminishing trends of both agrifood and adaptation investments is a cause for alarm and a missed opportunity.
Climate-related finance in the agriculture and land use sector between 2000 and 2020
26/01/2023
This document is the yearly update of the FAO analysis, “Climate finance in the agriculture and land use sector – global and regional trends” and includes newly released data for 2020. Climate finance is a fundamental element of the global development agenda and has been accelerating in the past years.
Towards open and transparent forest data for climate action
01/01/2022
“Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” is a project led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financed by the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with a lifespan of two and a...
Highlights
Accelerating change for water security in Jordan
22/03/2023
Climate change is primarily a water crisis, but sustainable water management offers solutions, from harvesting rainwater to storing treated wastewater
Green Climate Fund approves new projects worth $145.3 million for climate action in Bolivia, Cambodia and The Philippines
15/03/2023
The initiatives in partnership with FAO are focused on fostering climate adaptation and resilience for smallholder farmers
Climate finance is key to making agrifood systems more resilient, efficient, sustainable and inclusive
20/01/2023
Berlin – A boost in investment is essential to transform the world’s agrifood systems to become more resilient, efficient, sustainable...