- Multi-stakeholder meetings
- Focus Area Workshop
- Webinars
- Others
- Virtual Side Event during 1st Session of the COAG Sub-Committee on Livestock , 17 March 2022
- COP25 FAO-GASL Side Event, Madrid, Spain, 12 December 2019
- CFS Side Event, Rome, Italy, 15 October 2019
- International Congress on Silvopastoral Systems, Asunción, Paraguay, 26-27 September 2019
- MSP content workshop, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, 5-6 March 2019
- Guiding Group Meeting, FAO, Rome, Italy, 26-27 February 2019
- GFFA workshop: Sustainable livestock goes digital
- COAG side event 'AMR in Livestock: Innovation and the Role of GASL', Rome, Italy, 3 October 2018
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, Italy, 2-3 October 2018
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, Italy 6-7 March 2018
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, Italy 30 September 2016
- Guiding Group Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 23 June 2016
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, italy 12-13 April 2016
- Guiding Group Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 16-17 September 2015
- Outreach Event: Livestock in Sustainable Development, 17 September 2015
- Guiding Group Workshop, Rome, Italy 27-28 April 2015
- Investing in Sustainable Livestock. Fribourg, Switzerland , 4-5 June 2014
- Global Forum for Food and Agriculture. Berlin, Germany 1-18 January 2014
- Civil Society Dialogue. Ahmedabad, India, 27-29 September 2013
- Multi-Stakeholder Action for Sustainable Livestock. Rome, Italy 17 June 2013
- Interim Preparatory Committee Meetings 2011-2012
- Workshop: Turning the Agenda into Concrete Action. Rome, Italy 18 September 2012
- Briefing to the FAO Perm reps. Rome, Italy 8 February 2012
- Waste to worth
COP25 FAO-GASL Side Event
Synergies in sustainable livestock and climate change, addressing co-benefits and partnerships
12 December 2019, 09:00 to 10:30 hours
SDG Synergies Pavillion, Blue Zone, COP25, IFEMA, Feria de Madrid
The multistakeholder partnership (MSP) approach of the Global Agenda for sustainable Livestock, GASL, contributes in a unique way to the important tasks countries face to implement effective solutions for climate change and sustainability issues in a broad sense.
This was confirmed in the side event organised by FAO and GASL. It illustrated well how climate action in the livestock sector generates multiple benefits through partnerships. Examples from Kenya, Uruguay, Costa Rica, the Chaco region, France, etc. showed an array of approaches and multistakeholder action leading to more sustainability in the livestock sector. The examples focused on climate impact of livestock and the potential to reduce the ecological footprint with science-based approaches be it in forage breeding, in animal breeding, in grassland management or in improved animal husbandry practices.
The event was a good example of the work of GASL and the value, multi-stakeholder action in the livestock sector can add to the effort to achieve the SDGs of the UN Agenda 2030. This was also acknowledged by a surprise visit of the United Nation's Secretary-General António Guterres.
Programme:
Time | Activity | Speaker |
09:00 | Opening by moderator, setting the scene | Muhammad Ibrahim, CATIE |
09:05 | Introduction to GASL and the panel | Fritz Schneider, GASL Chair |
09:10 | Panelists offer a 5-minute summary of key climate actions of their organizations and how these generate multiple benefits (SDGs). Emphasis on synergies, co-benefits and partnerships derived from participation in the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL). | Christine Zundel, FOAG, Switzerland (Donor) Joseph Mureithi, Kenya (Public Sector) Walter Oyhantcabal, MGAP, Uruguay (Public Sector) Mauricio Chacon, MAG, Costa Rica (Public Sector) Pablo Frere, Redes Chaco, Argentina (Civil Society) Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD (Academia/Research) Martial Bernoux, FAO (Intergovernmental) Emmanuel Coste, CNE, (Private Sector) |
09:55 | Questions panelists and audience | Moderator, speakers, audience |
10:25 | Conclusions and next steps | Fritz Schneider, GASL Chair |