📚The UN report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World was released on 24 July shows that the world is far off track to meeting SDG Targets 2.1 (ending hunger and food insecurity) and 2.2 (eradicating all forms of malnutrition). It emphasises the need for effective and sufficient financing to transform our agrifood systems with greater resilience to major drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition, while addressing inequalities and ensuring they deliver affordable healthy diets. The report also provides a long-awaited definition of financing for food security and nutrition and guidance for its implementation. There are recommendations regarding the efficient use of innovative financing tools and reforms to the food security and nutrition financing architecture.

📚A new article published in Nature Geoscience on 25 June highlights a new tipping point in ice-sheets due to ocean water intrusion, which could lead to higher sea level rise. 

📚New research published on 27 June in Global Change Biology by the WRI’s Global Forest Watch Initiative and the University of Maryland shows that Canada’s record-breaking 2023 wildfires released nearly 4 times more carbon than global aviation: the roughly 7.8 million hectares of Canada’s forests that burned produced roughly 3 billion tons of CO2.

📚An article issued in Nature Geoscience reveals that ice melting and associated changes in sea levels cause a mass redistribution on the Earth’s surface, leading to variations in polar motion and increasing day length by milliseconds. An analysis of the article adds that this is enough to potentially disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise timekeeping.

📚The UNCCD Secretariat published on 17 June an anniversary book titled ‘Unite for Land: 30 Years of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification”, in addition to reminding the treaty’s history, objectives, implementation and financing, it addresses land degradation neutrality, indicators as well as political frameworks and thematic issues.

📚A report released on 26 June by Development Initiatives on climate finance highlights where inconsistencies in climate finance reporting and sets out recommendations to help build trust and transparent climate finance data system. It shows a tenfold increase over 15 years for projects under the climate finance banner whereas they had no climate focus.