Inside the halls of COP29, delegates haggled over emissions targets, carbon markets, and financing mechanisms. These are topics that urgently need to be addressed. Climate change and the interconnected polycrises are no longer a thing of the future but have become day-to-day reality.

Future Economy Forum, NOW Partners Foundation, and Food Tank, in partnership with IICA, Unilever, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Sekem, and Imaflora, hosted a dynamic dinner series throughout weeks one and two at COP29 in Baku, bringing together high-level leaders from across sectors to advance solutions to the climate crisis using regenerative agriculture and land use.

Future Economy Forum and Food Tank, in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Unilever, NOW Partners Foundation, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Sekem, and Imaflora, convened global leaders for the “Scaling Regenerative Agriculture Innovations” series.

NOW Partners Foundations’ Managing Partner Daniël Povel, spoke recently in the COP29 Green Zone at the Azerbaijan Art Pavilion. The panel brought together a broad selection of experts to address international decarbonization in cultural and creative sectors.

A critical roundtable discussion unfolded today at COP29, uniting journalists, farmers, and food producers to explore the urgent challenges and transformative potential of regenerative agriculture in the face of climate change.

UN Climate Conference COP29 in Baku November 12-22.  Join Future Economy Forum, Food Tank, NOW Partners Foundation, SEKEM Group, Natural Capitalism Solutions and partner organizations for a dynamic series of solutions-focused events geared towards accelerating the shift to a regenerative economy.

Future Economy Forum at Climate Week NYC. If you missed New York, you can also join us for upcoming events at the UN’s Biodiversity Conference in Cali, the UNFCCC’s Climate Conference COP29 in Baku, or the UN Conference to Combat Desertification in Riyadh.

We are delighted to congratulate the Future Economy Forum partner organizations, Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming, Sekem and Egyptian Biodynamic Association for being awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, by the Portugal-based charitable foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

How can we accelerate systems change? After kicking off the second week of UN Climate Change Conference SB60 in Bonn, Germany, the Future Economy Forum and co-hosts SEKEM Group, Imaflora , EIT Food and Natural Capitalism Solutions convened a group of leaders, negotiators, NGOs, party representatives, student leaders and other stakeholders to come together for a Climate Solutions-focused evening of dialogue.

At the UN Conference SB60 Side event, “What food system keeps 1,5 degrees? Brazil’s potential to lead agri-food just transition.” Co-hosted by Imaflora, Instituto Regenerative, Action on Food, NOW Partners Foundation and Future Economy Forum.

At the UN Conference SB60 Side event, “Financing a Just Transition to Regenerative Food Systems through Multi Stakeholder Collaboration” with Sekem, Imaflora, EIT Food, NCS & Future Economy Forum. Spirited discussion and diverse perspectives shared.

A new initiative to join together three food pavilions at COP into one Action On Food hub, representing the whole food systems community, has launched today at the Bonn Climate Conference SB60.