School Meals as a Food System Gamechanger

School meals can do more than we think to facilitate a sustainable development. All around the world there is a rapidly growing interest in developing new as well as in rethinking existing school meal programs. Brazil and the Nordics are good examples. Integration of food & climate literacy training in the programs, a transition to more plant based diets, engagement of young people in innovation efforts and food waste reduction strategies are just some of the elements that are taken up. All efforts that make a contribution to climate mitigation and that are underlining the fact the school meal programs are increasingly recognized as levers of a transition to more just and climate friendly food systems. This is the point of departure for the session School Meals: Food System Gamechanger.  Brazil & the Nordics: Climate-Smart Innovations for Nutritious School Food that took place in the Blue Zone at COP30 at the Nordic Pavillon on Wednesday November 19. 14:00 – 14:45. 

Speakers: Janja Lula da Silva, First Lady of Brazilm Eva Bisgaard Pedersen, Danish Ambassador to Brazil, Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, Professor, Lund University, Sweden, Alessandra Pereira, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Moderator: Giselle Medeiros Mesiara, Guest researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Ana Maria Thomaz Maya Martins, Nutrition expert, IDEC, Brazil

Meeting hosted and recorded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Post production: Bent Egberg Mikkelsen and Giselle Medeiros Mesiara

Original announcement: https://pub.norden.org/cop30/index.html#lnk6a474b7d-2914-4b51-b716-597aabd752dc:~:text=School%20Meals%3A%20Food%20System%20Gamechanger