Description

The Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) contributes to FAO's aspirations that focus on how the work for a better environment can contribute to better production, better nutrition and better livelihoods. OCB supports the work of FAO to assist countries and stakeholders in responding to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, keeping food and agriculture sustainability high on the agenda through FAO’s seven core functions:

• develop and implement normative and standard-setting instruments;
• improve access to data and information;
• facilitate, promote and support policy dialogue;
• support capacity development at country and regional level;
• improve the uptake of knowledge, technologies and good practices;
• facilitate partnerships;
• advocate and communicate at national, regional and global level.

Working through five workstreams, OCB leads FAO’s work under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and hosts FAO units liaising with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). It works in coordination with other multilateral environmental agreements and action plans, and supported by OCB’s Youth and Gender groups, mainstreams gender and the involvement of youth in FAO’s strategies related to the sustainable use, management and conservation of natural resources for food and agriculture.