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The AGRICULTURE CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS 2022<\/strong> under the theme – \u201cBringing innovation and leadership from the Americas\u00b4 agriculture sector to address the climate crisis\u201d was a High-Level Meeting<\/strong> of the Americas recently held at the IICA Headquarters in Costa Rico.<\/p>\n Minister Samantha Marshall was unable to attend because of other commitments and duties.\u00a0 Therefore, Mr. Colin O\u2019keiffe, Permanent Secretary (PS) attended on her behalf and also to represent Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n The two main focus of this high-level meeting were addressing Climate Change issues in Agriculture in order to meet the 2030 Sustainable development goals and the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement.\u00a0 This was not only was the meeting a very important gathering of ministers and permanent secretaries, but member states, leaders of international climate funds, impact investment managers, development banks, cooperation agencies, and private sector were also invited to participate.<\/p>\n The meeting not a regular one, moreover, it was a \u201cpreparatory process<\/strong>\u201d where, discussions were held and decisions were made that could result into positive futuristic sustainable applications that would curtail the negative impacts of Climate Change on the Agriculture Sectors especially for those islands most vulnerable to Natural Disasters.<\/p>\n The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, thirty-four countries most of which were Spanish speaking were represented however at the conclusion of the meeting all were in solidarity with the concerns though they may differ country to country.\u00a0 The requests and expectations that were to be presented at the upcoming 27th<\/sup> United Nations Conference of Parties (UNFCC COP) were unanimous. The UNFCC COP will be held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 6th<\/sup> to 18th<\/sup> November, 2022.<\/p>\n Hopefully, if given the support and resources sought after the region will benefit in many areas that are conducive for a sustainable Agricultural Sector and mitigated against most if not all of the negative impact caused by Climate Change.<\/p>\n PS O\u2019keiffe felt that the meeting was a success. \u201cIt was one of the most successful meetings held especially at that particular level, as permanent secretaries from time to time we are asked to represent the ministers by doing so we would have been exposed over the years to these types of meeting and this particular one I can say has been the most successful one I have been to over the last three years,\u201d PS O\u2019keiffe said.\u00a0 The Success was credited to the full support given obtained and the unity that fostered the consolidated presentation generated out of this meeting\u00a0 which will be presented at UNFCC COP.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The AGRICULTURE CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS 2022 under the theme – \u201cBringing innovation and leadership from the Americas\u00b4 agriculture sector to address the climate crisis\u201d was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iica","category-news-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}