PARIS, 14 December 2015 (UN News Service): With countries reaching a new agreement at the UN climate change conference (COP21), the global meeting has been qualified as a “monumental triumph” by top UN officials.
While many continued to hail the outcome document as the walls of COP21 were torn down on Sunday, the UN News Centre looked back on other aspects that contributed “positive energy” to the two-week event.
Highlighting what made COP21 “green” was Fanina Kodre-Alexander from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), who manages communications on climate change, disasters and conflicts.
She said UNEP worked with the organizers – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Government of France – to ensure sustainability throughout the Paris-Le Bourget site located north-east of the capital.
“We work under our ‘Eat, Think, Save’ campaign in collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and we believe that food waste is the third largest emitter after a couple of countries,” Ms. Koder-Alexander noted.
To reduce waste, all the food provided at UNEP events, including those during COP21, is sourced from rescued (kasseret) food, resources that would otherwise have been destroyed. Ms. Kodre-Alexander highlighted that it is always provided in a “very appetizing and lovely way.”
Another exciting feature at COP21 related to food, which attracted a lot of attention, was the boulangers brought on premise to avoid trucking kilos of fresh baguettes ever day.
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