Accelerating Action and Opening Opportunities- A Closer Integration of Climate and Nutrition

Accelerating Action and Opening Opportunities

A Closer Integration of Climate and Nutrition

I-CAN ASSESSMENT 2025

Overview

The I-CAN Assessment 2025 aims to provide a snapshot into the current state of integration between climate and nutrition action across 16 indicators in policy and finance. Despite modest progress since 2023, the report makes clear that integration of climate and nutrition in key international and national policies and financing remains limited, slowing progress towards both reducing malnutrition and climate goals.

However, the report also helps to highlight priority areas for action, spotlighting examples of best practice we can learn from as we progress into the second half of this critical decade for the SDGs and climate action.

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Bite the Talk Podcast: The Climate & Nutrition Story with Oliver Camp

In this episode of Bite the Talk, Oliver Camp of GAIN about the critical, interconnected challenges and opportunities between climate change and nutrition. He discusses how the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) is working to find "win-win" solutions, urging for better integration of nutrition into climate policies and finance ahead of COP30

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It is likely that warming will exceed 1.5°C during the 21st century

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As many as 828 million people are undernourished

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The impact of malnutrition in all its forms is estimated to be US$3.5 trillion each year

Climate policy commitments rarely consider nutrition

For the 2025 I-CAN assessment report, we have developed a methodology where 4 classification levels are used to determine the degree of integration between climate and nutrition.

These classification levels are used across a range of indicators (where applicable) and are designed to be action-oriented progressing toward the higher levels.

Level of climate-nutrition integration in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in 2023 (n=166) and 2025 (n=167)

The September 2025 deadline for NDCs 3.0 was a pivotal opportunity for countries to increase the scope and ambition of their climate action plans – but the majority still show low levels of climate and nutrition integration – 79% of all updated documents score Level 2 or below.

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Level of climate-nutrition integration in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) in 2023 (n=43) and 2025 (n=63)

National Nutrition Plans (NNPs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) show both greater improvement since 2023 and higher levels of integration compared with mitigation focused strategies such as NDCs.

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Level of climate-nutrition integration in National Nutrition Plans (NNPs) in 2023 (n=50) and 2025 (n=53)

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Level of climate-nutrition integration in Climate Change Gender Action Plans. (n=16)

Stronger integration at the nexus of gender, nutrition and climate change: ccGAPs showed the greatest climate and nutrition integration across all policy indicators, with 69% scoring at the highest two levels (Level 3 or 4).

Integration of Climate into National Nutrition Plans (NNPs) (% of total, N=50)

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Finance Commitment

Only a very minor share of financing provided by bilateral donors and major development banks supports dual climate and nutrition objectives. There remains little consistency in the reporting frameworks used to measure the impact of finance commitments, making it difficult to determine the true volume of finance going to climate- and nutrition-related activities.