Hello everyone, and welcome to Delivering Climate Action While We Feed the World. We'll start the event in a few minutes. Please stay tuned and submit your comments and questions using the live chat.
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Welcome everyone! I’m William Sutton with the World Bank, and I will be live blogging this event.
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The panel discussion will begin shortly, after the opening remarks from Benoit Bosquet.
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Please submit your comments and questions in the chat
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The panel discussion begins now, with a series of thought-provoking questions posed by our moderator, Julian Lampietti. The panel consists of Ministers of Agriculture from around the world, and senior representatives from development partners and the private sector.
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With a fast-growing demographic and ever-increasing needs, is it realistic to promise to reduce emissions and succeed in feeding everyone with healthy food? Shouldn't we focus on limiting births to hope to meet this challenge?
Attendee #55
Thanks for the question. As Mr. Duke said, the priority has to continue to be to feed the world, especially children. We need to promote multiple "wins" from agriculture, including increasing productivity, enhancing resilience, and reducing emissions where possible. Fortunately agriculture can provide such triple-win solutions.
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That concludes the discussion. Thank you to all who tuned in! If you’ve missed anything, note that the recording of the event will be available on this page.
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