#COPSoil Event Schedule

Soil, often overlooked, is a strategic tool to improve climate resilience, food security, carbon capture and storage, and a highly biodiverse asset for all who walk upon it. Improving its health is of paramount importance. Its role as a fundamental natural resource cannot be overstated. But how do we activate soil as a strategic tool to deliver on its potential? What policies, financial mechanisms and soil data could activate the multiple benefits that soil could yield?

Organized by: Yara International

Investing privately in any food system has risks, but can private and public investment models subvert challenges of investing in sustainable soil management practices? This event will explore how risks of such investments can be mitigated. But who will mitigate them?

Save Soil Pavilion

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More information about the 7th International 4 per 1000 Day at the UNFCCC COP will be available soon.

This event will enhance the understanding of how sustainable agri-food and livestock systems can help mitigate the impacts of land degradation, enhance biodiversity, and play an important role in food systems transformation. The session will bring together farmer representatives, leaders of global initiatives and policymakers to share their visions and actions to galvanise increased support for investing in sustainable and healthy smallholder producers.

Food Systems Pavilion

Organized by: "4 per 1000"

IICA Pavilion

Healthy soil is the foundation of our food systems and provides several vital ecosystem services, from carbon sequestration to improving food and nutrition security. Efforts to combat desertification, to move from scarcity to prosperity, will need to consider how to scale soil health, globally. With over one-third of the Earth’s surface degraded and over 3.2 billion people negatively affected by degradation, continuing business as usual is no longer an option. The urgent need to transform our food systems has never been more critical. Now is the time for multi-stakeholder action to build an enabling environment at multiple levels for supporting, financing, scaling and monitoring healthy soil ecosystems.

This session aims to spotlight the pivotal role of soil health in reshaping agricultural practices, ensuring food security, and combating climate change.

Organized by: CA4SH

Organized by: "4 per 1000" & LOAM / FIAN Sri Lanka

Moderated by: Claudia Schepp ("4 per 1000")

Sri Lanka Pavilion

Soil, often overlooked, is a strategic tool to improve climate resilience, food security, carbon capture and storage, and a highly biodiverse asset for all who walk upon it. Improving its health is of paramount importance. Its role as a fundamental natural resource cannot be overstated. But how do we activate soil as a strategic tool to deliver on its potential? What policies, financial mechanisms and soil data could activate the multiple benefits that soil could yield?

Organized by: Yara International

World soil day event hosted by 4p1000.

Save Soil Pavilion

Experts discuss financial instruments that are present for farmers to access carbon finance. Is transitioning to sustainable soil management practices essential for our survival? Yes. Unfortunately, farmers are not being sufficiently incentivised to make this transition. With inputs from leading experts in the private sector, this session will explore what it will take for different forms of finance to become available to farmers and what investors need to be enthusiastic about getting involved.

Save Soil Pavilion

From Rio to Kyoto to Paris - COP has strived to craft both a voluntary and mandatory carbon marketplace. However, policies still need to evolve, and challenges remain in facilitating farmers’ access to carbon finance. In this unique event, we will explore the steps taken at the policy level to date, and how carbon finance can become a mainstream source of income for farmers practising carbon-negative agriculture.

Save Soil Pavilion

Guiding question: a year on from President Macron’s call for a methodology to better channel the One Planet Summit GGW pledges to the local communities, where are we?

Burkina Faso Pavilion

How much does soil health impact human health? Studies have shown that plant nutrition is highly dependent on soil health. When 80% of food consumed by human beings originates from soils, how much we nourish the life beneath our feet may have a major role to play in our own wellbeing. On World Soil Day 2024, join leading experts from various aspects of food production to explore this intersection and the importance of organic matter in ensuring healthy, living soil.

Save Soil Pavilion

Youth and Gender are mentioned in three quarters of NDCs but many times it is a throwaway phrase and it doesn’t have any meaningful implementation or money behind it! This event is a call to action for member states to pick up these and other neglected opportunities to transform Food Systems. The panel will also explore entry points for local actors to ensure their role in the practical operationalization of NDCs.

NDC Partnership Pavilion

Small and marginal farmers are among the most vulnerable to climate shock events. The good news? Sustainable soil management practices can climate-proof these farmers whilst making their lands an effective carbon sink. The protocol challenges they face in engaging with the market as individuals can be overcome by coming together. This event will showcase the efforts from various parts of the world in collectivising small and medium-scale farmers practising sustainable soil management, and the exciting opportunities that can be unlocked to scale agriculture-based climate solutions.

Save Soil Pavilion

This side event will explore the ecological impacts of climate change – observed and projected – with a focus on LDCs and SIDS, and will consider the ways and means by which action can be taken to address ecological forms of loss and damage, in particular how finance can be mobilised to respond to the effect of ecological losses and damages (ecological, economic, social, cultural etc) and to enable damaged ecosystems to recover and be restored in the face of climate shocks.

Nature Pavilion

Could the planet’s largest living ecosystem also be the solution to climate breakdown? Restoring agricultural soil health is increasingly being labelled as a principle means of carbon sequestration and preserving biodiversity. This panel will offer perspectives from leading experts on the vital importance of sustainable soil management in humanity’s future, and how what was once considered an inert substance, may be the answer we’ve been looking for.

Save Soil Pavilion