Concertation Indépendante
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Main findings
The nexus between climate change, biodiversity and plant health is highly relevant to global food security and food systems, and the attainment of the SDGs. Climate change is allowing plant pests and diseases to thrive in places where we did not see them before. Climate change will result in more frequent extreme weather events, potentially leading to altered locations and methods of food production around the world. Climate change will affect pest epidemiology, pest distribution and host distribution, and thereby pest impacts. Water security will become an increasing challenge for more region
... Lire la suites in the world, affecting where crops are grown and marketed. New or mutated pests or their more aggressive strains will emerge and have a significant impact on crop productivity and quality, the environment and trade. Therefore, the participants highlighted the importance of implementing the IPPC standards and policies and the new IPPC Strategic Framework 2020-2030 to prevent the spread of pests. The IPPC goal is that all countries have the capacity to implement harmonized measures to prevent pest introductions and spread, and minimize the impact of pests on food security, trade, economic growth, and the environment. Climate change may make this more challenging, but also more urgent. Mitigating the impact of climate change provides yet another powerful driver for a harmonized effort. To ensure global food security and attainment of the SDGs, it is important to achieve the objectives of the IPPC Strategic Framework 2020-2030, which stipulates that by 2030, the impact of climate change on plant health and the safe trade of plants and plant products should be evaluated on a regular basis, especially in relation to pest risk analysis and global surveillance issues, and that phytosanitary issues are adequately reflected in the international climate change debate under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This goal was also reiterated among the participants. Innovative solutions like the establishment of global surveillance networks, coordinated research activities and integrated global pest risk analysis databases should be investigated to ensure that also less developed countries have access to sufficient scientific tools and data. It is suggested that International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) relevant to Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) are assessed with regard to their suitability to address issues related to climate change. PRA activities need to be intensified at national, regional and international levels and climate-change aspects need to be included in the assessment of pest risk. With regard to biodiversity, the participants reiterated that plant health does not only protect agricultural production, but also our ecosystems and biodiversity against invasive alien species, and what the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) calls quarantine pests. For this reason, the IPPC has cooperated with the Convention on Biological Diversity for 20 years. Participants highlighted that it is important that the IPPC as a Biodiversity Liaison Group (BLG) member keeps collaborating with other biodiversity related conventions and entities, and maintains an open dialogue with them. It was especially stressed that international cooperation between biodiversity related conventions should be increased and an inclusive One-Health Approach, including environmental and plant health, established. The participants also stressed the importance of increased regional and international cooperation in order to address efficaciously challenges posed by climate change to preserve biodiversity and protect plant health. The participants believed that plant genetic resources are key to future plant health challenges and the risk of erosion of biodiversity, and that data collection plays a major role in that. It was thought that possibilities to create an international system for easy, but safe movement of genetic material should be explored. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 3, 4, 5
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment