Mr. Chair, climate change is one of the existential crises that we have. It's one of the reasons that the Prime Minister authorized a doubling of our climate adaptation funding to $5.3 billion. Certain programs are currently taking place. Some might be expiring, but let's not also forget that most recently our government has announced $350 million for biodiversity as well. We are playing our role. We're also encouraging others to play their part.
I'm happy to say that we're working closely with the Minister of the Environment on how we look at the work we do in the environment but at the same time tackle some of the food security crises. In some places, what we're doing is making sure that when we're looking at climate adaptation or biodiversity, how do we protect agricultural fields at the same time? That also impacts food security.
Some good work is taking place. What I'm actually very impressed with is that, more importantly, a lot of other nations are stepping up to come up with their own plans. Rather then us telling them what needs to be done, nations are coming up with their own plans. I will be going to the African Union to discuss with them the national plans they're putting forward. Canada can't do it all, obviously, but we are looking at where we can have key areas of focus when it comes to food security. Some of it's also going to be thinking about things like fertilizer.
We're taking a multi-faceted approach in looking at the climate work, trying to link it with food security and to bring things together so that we can maximize our support. We're not just looking at one fund. We're looking at how we're doing food security here and layering on the funding support so that we can have an even bigger impact on the ground.