Tackling Food Security and Climate Change

Our food system contributes around a third of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. There are huge opportunities to decarbonise the food and agricultural value chain, from farm inputs all the way to the dinner table and beyond. While the world has mapped out net zero targets for sectors like energy and transport to decarbonise, the food and agriculture sector remain largely uncharted.

The good news is the actions to decarbonise the food system can also have a positive benefit on food security, public health, energy security, jobs, water and ecosystems. For example, producing renewable fertilisers from our organic residues like food waste, wastewater and manure can reduce Australia’s GHG emissions, divert organic waste from landfill, reduce our dependence on risky foreign supply chains, support food security, and protect our waters from the Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment to the Great Barrier Reef from widespread nutrient pollution.

In this talk, Associate Professor Dana Cordell from the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures will explore the opportunities to transform our food system for climate change, food security and more, as we progress into a circular economy.

This event is part of UTS Global Goals Month 2025, and is presented by UTS Sustainability and UTS BUILD. Explore more of the Global Goals Month program here.

Contact the host of Chats for the Goals: Food Security