OXFORD, England, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The second version of the OpenAg Symposium, hosted by UPL Ltd. (NSE: UPL, BSE: 512070, LSE GDR: UPLL) (‘UPL’), a world supplier of sustainable agricultural options, and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (‘OICSD’), Somerville College, University of Oxford, has outlined a sequence of coverage positions, technological interventions, and monetary fashions to rework meals programs as optimistic contributors to international decarbonisation efforts.
The occasion united a choose group of representatives from academia, coverage, finance and the non-public sector underneath the theme ‘Food Futures in a Changing Climate: Reimagining the function of agriculture as a pathway to Net Zero.’ Following a keynote by Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, panellists from Brazil, India, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Kenya, proposed a sequence of insurance policies and interventions to make sure future meals programs are environment friendly, resilient, inclusive and sustainable.
This included requires extra supporters to affix traders representing $14.59 trillion who’re calling on the UN to supply a Global Roadmap to 1.5˚C, the creation of formal carbon framework for soil, and higher and extra clear monitoring and measurement for all internet zero initiatives inside agriculture. On finance, panellists outlined the necessity for extra enhanced monetary fashions to de-risk new funding in sustainable agriculture, the significance of pretty incentivising and rewarding farmers for adopting sustainable practices, and the necessity for justice and equality to kind key pillars throughout all local weather interventions.
Jai Shroff, Global CEO of UPL, mentioned:
“At UPL, we imagine that agriculture has a decisive function to play on the trail to decarbonisation throughout this significant window for motion within the combat in opposition to local weather change. The discussions we have heard at this yr’s OpenAg Symposium display the rising urge for food for the innovation and cross-sector collaboration required to rework the climate-positive contribution of meals programs around the globe.”
Concluding the OpenAg Symposium, Baroness Royall, mentioned:
“As we head in direction of COP27, the partnerships between tutorial establishments, coverage makers, and personal sector have to be the linchpins of discovering solutions to essentially the most urgent sustainability points being confronted around the globe. Solutions are most discovered when disciplines align, and the discussions we’ve led as we speak have to be catalysts for extra interdisciplinary conversations and commitments that can ship the best affect on agriculture and sustainability.”
Recordings of the keynote and panels, in addition to a full listing of audio system will be seen at: https://openag.some.ox.ac.uk/.
For extra data, please contact:
Vinita Govindarajan
Partnerships & Communications Manager, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
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Reina Roets
Global Head of Marketing Communications, UPL Ltd.
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About UPL Ltd.
UPL Ltd. (NSE: UPL & BSE: 512070, LSE: UPLL) is a world supplier of sustainable agriculture merchandise and options, with annual income exceeding $6 bn. We are a purpose-led firm. Through OpenAg®, UPL is targeted on accelerating progress for the meals system. We are constructing a community that’s reimagining sustainability, redefining the way in which a whole business thinks and works – open to recent concepts, innovation, and new solutions as we try in direction of our mission to make each single meals product extra sustainable. As one of many largest agriculture options firms worldwide, our sturdy portfolio consists of biologicals and conventional crop safety options with greater than 14,000 registrations. We are current in additional than 130 international locations, represented by greater than 10,000 colleagues globally. For extra details about our built-in portfolio of options throughout the meals worth chain together with seeds, post-harvest, in addition to bodily and digital companies, please go to upl-ltd.com and observe us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
About the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
The OICSD advances analysis on the challenges and alternatives of sustainable improvement within the Indian subcontinent, bringing disciplines collectively to deal with core themes, creating future leaders by means of scholarships and translating analysis into motion. Through its conferences and seminars, OICSD has been working to coordinate Oxford’s various experience on India and local weather change, regulation and governance, meals and water safety, well being, clear vitality, expertise and sustainable cities.
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