The Impact of Tax Law and Policy on Food Waste, Food Recovery and Donation

UNEP is co-hosting a webinar that will bring together government officials and policymakers (along with select food donors and food recovery organizations) to discuss the role of tax policy in reducing food waste, and facilitating food recovery and donation.

Background information available in the Issue Brief here.

This webinar supports the Global Food Donation Policy Atlas project and UNEP’s Regional Food Waste Working Groups. The Atlas project is a partnership between the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN), which explores legal and regulatory barriers to food donation, as well as opportunities for law and policy to drive donation of safe, surplus food, and shares best practices for consideration for countries involved in the project and beyond.

UNEP’s Regional Food Waste Working Groups, part of the GO4SDGs Initiative, support 25 member states and 70 food systems stakeholders in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Asia, in measuring and reporting on food waste and developing national strategies to halve food waste by 2030, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.

In addition to FLPC and GFN, the web conference series is conducted in partnership with Food Systems for the Future.

Register here: http://fbli.foodbanking.org/fbli-sessions/tax-policy-and-food-waste/

Wednesday 1 December

08:00–09:30 UTC -6 (8:00 a.m. Chicago)

09:00 –10:30 UTC -5 (9:00 a.m. Boston / New York)

14:00 –15:30 UTC +-0 (2:00 p.m. London)

Moderator:

Ertharin Cousin: CEO and Founder of Food Systems for the Future; Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Food Security and Environment in the Freeman Spogli Institute; former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme; former US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture.

Speakers:

Carrie Calvert, Vice President, Government Relations, Feeding America.

Guillaume Garot, député de la Mayenne (member of the French Assemblée Nationale and former Minister for the Food Industry).

António Mendonça Mendes, Secretário de Estado Adjunto e dos Assuntos Fiscais (Secretary for Tax Affairs).

Attendees will be sent information and materials prior to this session.

If you have any questions, please contact Regan Plekenpol at rplekenpol@law.harvard.edu or Clementine O’Connor at clementine.oconnor@un.org