From Farm to Fork

We can only achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement if all sectors are put on the path toward climate neutrality. While significant progress is being made in the energy, buildings and mobility sectors, achieving climate neutrality in the agriculture and food sector remains a more complex challenge. It is true that inputs for agricultural production and the value chain, such as fertilisers and energy, can potentially become largely climate-neutral in the future. However, certain aspects, like the production of animal products and land use, pose significant hurdles due to persistent methane and greenhouse gas emissions. Although these correlations are well understood, effective transformation measures are still under debate.

Therefore:

• How can the individual players along the value chain best contribute to a successful food transformation? 
• What impact do instruments such as carbon footprints or life cycle assessments have,
• And can the ever-increasing demand for data also cause undesirable side effects?

We aim to discuss these and other pressing questions with experts from different fields.

The evening is part of our FUTURE FORUM ECORNET event series. In this series, we critically examine current environmental and sustainability policy challenges in search of unconventional solutions.

About the Future Forum Ecornet event series

Future: The "future" has long since become a key concept in debates on environmental and sustainability policy. Once dominated by scenarios of threat, today's discussions increasingly focus on opportunities for shaping the future: What kind of world do we want to make possible for present and future generations?

Forum: Shaping an ecologically sustainable and socially just future, on the other hand, can only succeed through dialogue between politics, science, the economy and civil society. Ecornet aims to bring together the different actors and provide them with a forum to jointly address the social problems of our time.

Ecornet: Specific social problems require practical solutions. The aim of Ecornet is to actively shape and scientifically support the societal transformation towards sustainability. Thanks to their thematic and methodological diversity along with their work at the intersection of science and society, the eight Ecornet institutes provide concrete answers to the pressing challenges of our time.