Please join us for a webinar discussing food systems, waste management and climate action. You'll hear from three presenters in the session: Christoph Klebl, Nathan Cook and Kiah Smith, and have plenty of time to ask questions.
Dr Christoph Klebl is a Research Fellow at the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland whose research examines public support for climate change mitigation and environmental policy. His presentation will draw on large cross-national research across 106 countries to discuss how citizens assign responsibility for climate action between governments, businesses, and individuals, and how these views differ across institutional contexts. The presentation will also explore what these differences mean for public support for decarbonisation policies.
Dr Nathan Cook is a Lecturer at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at UQ. His research focuses on sport nutrition, sustainable foodservices and future human and planetary health. Nathan’s presentation will discuss the challenges of measuring and managing food waste in hospital foodservices and proposing solutions to this difficult problem.
Dr Kiah Smith is a Senior Research Fellow at CPF, whose work contributes new understandings of the social dimensions of food system transformation at the intersection of multiple crises. In this presentation, Kiah will examine findings from a nation-wide study of place-based food system innovations that describe how closed-loop urban food initiatives are shifting the narrative from 'food waste' to 'yield', decoupling food production from fossil fuels and providing a pathway to climate action. This 'futures thinking' research also highlights the important role of young farmers and community coalitions in food and climate governance.
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