With the firm belief that global collaboration must be at the center of solutions to the climate crisis, Fundación Avina has joined the following initiatives, all of which will be featured during the COP26 conference.   

IT’S NOW 

Fundación Avina joins IT’S NOW Global Climate Action, a civil society-led movement from the global South focused on food security. IT’S NOW encourages proactive climate action based on simple, concrete measures. This year, IT’S NOW is promoting a global chain of socio-environmental actions focused on creating thousands of community gardens worldwide.   

In addition to addressing food insecurity—a crisis that the pandemic has only exacerbated—community gardens boost local economies, strengthen community organization, and contribute to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. IT’S NOW is working to increase, accelerate, and bring visibility to community gardens and other climate actions throughout the world. The solution to the dual crises of climate change and food insecurity depends on actions carried out by all of us on a global scale.  

IT´S NOW has also drafted a manifesto, developed with a Latin American citizens’ assembly, that will be delivered to authorities at COP26. 

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Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature, and Climate  

Fundación Avina is supporting the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture, to be launched at COP26 (#ClimateShot), which seeks to close the ‘innovation gap’ in agriculture and food systems that holds back current climate ambitions.  
 
Based on Fundación Avina’s mandate to promote sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, we recognize the urgency of a just and equitable transition for local farmers in the global South. We are currently leading and participating in various regional initiatives that seek to increase agricultural resilience, such as Andes Resilientes al Cambio Climático (co-lead with Helvetas), which provides improved tools and opportunities to help small, vulnerable farmers face a changing climate in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. We are also supporting programs to increase resilience among small agricultural producers in the Chaco region and are actively contributing to the Sustainable Soy Roundtable in Bolivia. Collaboration is a pillar of Fundación Avina’s work, and joining forces with other institutions through this initiative will help us achieve our common goals. 
 

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Locally Led Adaptation Principles   

The Principles for Locally Led Adaptation are intended to guide the adaptation community as it moves programs, funding, and practices towards adaptation that is increasingly owned by local partners. Through a community of practice, these organizations will share progress and lessons learned to enhance understanding of what is needed for effective, equitable locally-led adaptation.  

Avina is working on several projects and initiatives to reach organizations and communities that are leading their own development work and looking for innovative ways to increase their resilience to climate change. While our programs focus mainly on Latin America, we believe that many of the lessons learned from our region can be applied to the global South.  

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Manifesto “COP 26 must transform the paradigm of climate finance»  

Organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia — through the leadership of the Latin American and Caribbean Climate Finance Group (GFLAC), Rabia Transitions (South Africa), and the Financial Futures Centre (FFC, Philippines) —have released a joint statement to call on the COP 26 Presidency to transform the paradigm of climate finance so that it reaches the world’s most vulnerable nations.  

Fundación Avina supports the statement and proposed actions, particularly that climate finance flows must shift towards more effective and fairer forms of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration. Read the statement here. 

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Alliances for Climate Action’s Global Call to Action  

Fundacion Avina is joining the Alliances for Climate Action’s Global Call to Action. The latest scientific information indicates that we are at a pivotal moment for humanity; the moment is urgent, and we cannot afford to stay on the sidelines.  

Avina is part of the over 6000 cities, state, regional and tribal governments, companies, investors, faith, cultural and academic institutions, and civil society organizations that are coming together in our respective national alliances to accelerate national transitions aligned with 1.5°C and net-zero targets.  

Find out more here. 

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Race to Zero

Fundación Avina has signed the Non-Party Stakeholders (NPS) commitment to deliver net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. Within the context of this ‘Decisive Decade’ for climate action, we believe it is critical to accelerate our efforts (through an improved Marrakech Partnership) to maximize the impact of the work of all non-party stakeholders through the following actions:    

• Act now in line with science by driving further momentum in the number of credible, transparent, science-aligned, high ambition climate targets and plans;  
• Drive exponential systems change by accelerating the complex task of working within and across value chains and sectors to transform the global economy, to adapt and build resilience, and limit warming to 1.5°C;  
• Work with national governments;  
• Deepen local engagement to ensure an inclusive, equitable, global, multi-stakeholder approach;  
• Build and adhere to the highest standards of transparency and accountability for Non-Party Stakeholder commitments.