Presentation

Today’s systems are no longer fit for purpose. We need to reinvent how we source, produce, and process our food, its transportation and the materials we use to package it.

As a world leading food processing and packaging solutions company, Tetra Pak is coming to COP27 to accelerate actions and enable a shift towards resilient and sustainable food systems and healthier diets. Our progress depends on embracing a mindset which drives both growth and sustainability for a better future – to this end, system thinking, science-based decisions and collaborative innovation are crucial.

In recent decades, food systems have delivered major human development benefits through massive increases in productivity. Yet, today’s systems are unsustainable and wasteful. They are failing to deliver healthy diets, with 800m people going hungry daily and 2 billion people overweight or obese. At the same time food systems bear high hidden costs - amounting to some $12 trillion each year - and have a detrimental impact on the environment. We need a radically new approach to the way we feed the planet, one that helps us not to trespass the planetary boundaries.

For Tetra Pak, the opportunities to do that lie in four key areas:

• Increasing access to safe, affordable and nutritious food.

• Reducing food loss and waste.

• Building sustainable and resilient food supply chains.

• Leveraging innovation in food packaging and processing to improve global food security.

At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, the focus needs to be on how collaborative action, policy reform and innovation can help drive the decarbonisation of food systems for the achievement of the Paris Agreement goals.

It isn’t enough to say change is needed. A long-term, collaborative approach needs to be at the heart of all pledges, initiatives, and agreements to make this transformation happen. Tetra Pak is coming to COP27 to accelerate actions towards sustainable and resilient food systems.