COP28 Tackling Micronutrient Malnutrition in a Warming World

When

10 December 2023

Where

Hybrid event at Health Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP28, Dubai

Summary

Held in honor of the conference’s first time to dedicate a day to nutrition and climate change, the event highlighted the importance of optimizing population health and resilience amidst current and future challenges, particularly related to climate change. Speakers from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), FFI, International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF), Micronutrient Forum (MNF), Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), Standing Together For Nutrition (ST4N), and the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed policy and action recommendations to enhance nutrition resilience while maintaining a neutral or positive impact on the environment. Key topics included nutrition-resilient systems, the resolution on food fortification adopted at the 2023 World Health Assembly, and Member States' efforts in using fortification to achieve nutrition resilience amidst climate change.

On behalf of FFI, Jessie Genoway discussed the interwoven relationship between climate change and micronutrient malnutrition and how interventions like large-scale food fortification can transform lives by building nutrition—and climate—resilience

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