WEBINAR: Changing how and what we eat: Who can lead the way?

'Changing how and what we eat: Who can lead the way?' is the sixth webinar from the broader series: ‘Sustainable Living 1.5: Empowering People to live better and lighter’.

Objective: To highlight how people can eat better and lighter and show creative initiatives already underway to explore and explode sustainability.

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Date: 15 October 2020 

Time: 17.00 - 18.30 Central Eastern Time

Context: Food brings us together. To survive, celebrate, connect and express our identity. With increasing concerns for the equity, health and sustainability impacts of food systems – magnified in the COVID-19 context – it’s time to take action. Swapping proteins, using all our food and growing our own are impactful ways we can address climate change, biodiversity, health and food security as an individual.

The webinar explores creative initiatives and approaches to inspire and help unleash needed energy for action. Speakers will discuss: 1. How can we take action for sustainable food systems as individuals? 2. How has the COVID context affected behaviours and created opportunities for change? 3. What motivates effective (more sustainable) behaviours? 4. What new forms of engagement are changing the landscape?

Agenda 

17.00-17.05 - Welcome to the Living Better and Lighter Series – Garrette Clark, UNEP

17.05-17.10 -The UN Food Systems Summit and the role of consumers -- James Lomax, Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Programme Officer, UNEP

17.10-17.25 - The impact of food choices on climate change at individual and country level -- Crystal Chissell, Vice President, Operations & Engagement, Project Drawdown

17.25-17.40 - How food education creates lifelong sustainable food behaviours -- Angela McKee-Brown, Executive Director, The Edible Schoolyard Project

17.40-17.55 - Changing food waste behaviours and the COVID moment -- Richard Swannell, Development Director, WRAP

17.55-18.10 - Leaps towards plant-rich diets in 2020 –Agnieszka de Sousa, Food & Agriculture Correspondent, Bloomberg News

18.10-18.30 - Moderated discussion and conclusions