This session will explore the importance of healthy sustainable diets for people and the planet, as speakers address the challenges communities face accessing fresh, healthy foods as well as potential solutions.
COP26 Event: Using Investment and True Cost Accounting as Levers for Food Systems Change
This session will explore investment and True Cost Accounting (TCA) as powerful tools that can effect food systems change. Panelists will discuss the importance of each tool and what it will take unlock their power.
COP26 Event: Financing the future – What’s next for philanthropy in the climate emergency?
This COP26 session explores the ways in which philanthropy can help translate commitments made at global, national and regional forums – like the UN Food Systems Summit and COP26 and others – from words into action.
COP26 Event: Grasslands and Savannahs – Climate Solutions Beyond Forests at the COP26
This special panel discussion at the COP26 will explore the importance of our global grassland and savannah systems, the services and benefits they provide, including as undervalued assets and overlooked solutions in our climate agenda.
COP26 Event: Panel Discussion on Healthy and Sustainable Diets
During this COP26 event, food systems experts will explore the inextricable link between healthy and sustainable diets and public health, local food systems, food workers, and biodiversity. Speakers include the WWF’s Brent Loken, Nourish Scotland’s Pete Ritchie, and Food Tank’s Dani Nierenberg.
COP26 Event: Videos for Change
This film screening will feature the finalists of the Food x Film Festival Videos for Change competition, featuring youth-created films. The winning mini documentaries will be screened alongside commentary by Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg.
COP26 Event: Film Screening – The Ants and the Grasshopper
“The Ants the the Grasshopper” is a new documentary by author, filmmaker and academic Raj Patel showing how the fight for climate action will also be a battle for food sovereignty, racial justice, and gender equality around the world. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Danielle Nierenberg and Raj Patel.
COP26 Event: A New Approach to Meat
At this event, panelists will discuss what it takes to change the production of animal protein while maintaining farmer livelihoods and food security. Confirmed speakers include Aleph Farms CEO Didier Toubia, Sustainable Food Trust Director Patrick Holden, and Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg.
COP26 Events: Food and Agriculture Offers Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Food Tank will be engaged in a series of events at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Conversations will bring together food system visionaries, emerging leaders, and renowned experts in open dialogue to discuss ways toward food-based climate action. Please join us as we showcase how food offers a solution to the climate crisis.
