The Africa Climate Week 2023 will bring together government leaders, businesses, civil society organizations, and communities from across the continent to share their experiences, insights, and solutions. Through collaboration, innovation, and action, we can build a more sustainable and resilient Africa for generations to come.
GAIN will take part with a series of side events.
Taking Integrated Action on Climate and Nutrition: Introducing I-CAN
Event organising partners: FAO, WHO, GAIN, SUN
Venue: Lenana Hall
The Government of Egypt, as COP27 President, in partnership with WHO, FAO, GAIN, SUN, the UN-Nutrition secretariat and other partners, has developed a multistakeholder, multisectoral global flagship initiative that will help foster collaboration to accelerate transformative action to address the critical nexus of climate change and nutrition.
The Initiative for Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) aims to build a strong alliance across nutrition and climate communities, strengthen existing efforts and take action to address the gaps, and develop an evidence base of integrated nutrition and climate action. These objectives will contribute to achieving the roadmap to COP28, where it is envisaged to have the importance of integrated action for climate change and nutrition come out clearly in the outcome document of COP28. This will help to accelerate climate change and nutrition action by the Member States.
Objectives of the I-CAN side event
- To introduce the I-CAN vision and objectives
- To illustrate the co-benefits of integrated action and collaboration across environment and nutrition
- To present initial findings on the current level of integration in nutrition and climate action, including a specific focus on alignment in African countries
- To showcase the ambition of national governments, including practical examples of best practice on climate & nutrition
- To discuss effective actions and strategies to accelerate work across the nexus of climate change and nutrition with Non-State Actors, Member Countries, and UN agencies, presenting the Ecosystem of Support on offer
Speakers include:
- Mr Jean-Paul Adam (OSAA)
- Ms Irene Kimani (FAO)
- Professor Brama Koné (AFRO/WHO)
- Ms Ruth Okowa
- Mr Oliver Camp (GAIN)
- Ms Stephanie Sargeant (A4F)
- Ms Elizabeth Kimani (APHRC)