The third Business Brief entitled The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems was launched virtually through a LinkedIn live event and zoom webinar on 16 September 2021 with the support of UNEP-WCMC and the UNEP Communication Team. The Brief’s launch took place in a high-level interactive panel discussion moderated by Deputy Director of UNEP-WCMC, Corli Pretorius that included opening remarks from UNEP’s Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya. The panelists included Andrew Griffiths (Nestlé), Assan Ng’ombe (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) and Ruth Thomas (World Business Council for Sustainable Development).
In her remarks, UNEP’s Deputy Director set the scene with a keynote statement that emphasized that food production is propelling climate change, driving pollution and it is pushing thousands of species towards extinction. She added that, “we have managed to create a global food system in which, perversely, both hunger and obesity are rampant. Worldwide, 690 million people do not have enough to eat while 2 billion are overweight.”
