12 December, 2019, Madrid, Spain - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu speaks to close the IPCC SR highlights climate change impacts on food security and poverty. As a response this event showcased examples of biodiversity-friendly adaptation, resilience and risk-reduction responses that can be undertaken to address climate change for a world free of hunger, malnutrition and poverty, Attendees included Luis Planas Puchades, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain, Zimbabwe's Minister for the Environment, Butan's Minister for the Environment, President of PAFO, Rice Exchange, Environment Minister of Costa Rica, Global Water Partnership, AFPAT, EAFF and David Nabarro. UN Climate Change Conference COP 25, Madrid 2 - 13 December 2019.