Glasgow Food & Climate Declaration presented at COP26
Channel: IPES-Food
Date: 2021-11-11

On November 6, 2021, Glasgow Food & Climate Declaration partners and signatories came together in Glasgow City Chambers to celebrate subnational leadership on food systems sustainability at COP26. Taking place on COP26's designated Nature Day, this event underlined the critical importance of food systems sustainability and local action to tackle the global climate emergency.

Interventions are made in English, French and Spanish.

Moderator: Ms. Hilal Elver, Steering Committee member of the HLPE, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, and representative of the City of Istanbul

Panel discussants: 
-Mrs. Teresa Jorda I Roura, Minister for Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, Catalonia
-Mr. T. Vijay Kumar, executive vice chairman of Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, Andhra Pradesh
-Mayor Tunç Soyer, Mayor of Izmir 
-Mr. Ahyani Sidik, Regional Secretary of the Surakarta City Government 
-Mr. Francisco Jose Joao Rocha Moura de Castro, Coordination of International Relations, São Paulo
-Ms. Elizabeth Gulugulu Machache, co-chair of the YOUNGO Food and Agriculture working group and African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, Zimbabwe

Interventions from the floor (online and in-person): 
00:55:52 Audrey Pulvar, Deputy Mayor, Paris
01:00:01 Mandresy Rakotoarison, Director of International Cooperation, Antananarivo
01:02:13 Jean-Charles Lardic,  Director of Foresight and Food Policy Coordinator, Marseille
01:05:27 Gilles Perole, Deputy Mayor, Mouans-Sartoux
01:08:30 Cllr Asher Craig, Bristol
01:12:41 Mayor Gorka Urtaran, Vitoria-Gasteiz
01:15:05 Gautier Chapuis, Deputy Mayor in charge of Local Food and Food Safety, Lyon

01:22:00 Cllr Susan Aitken, leader of Glasgow City Council

01:31:56 Cllr Phelim Mac Cafferty, Leader of the Council, Brighton & Hove 
01:36:44 Cllr Anne Randall, Dundee
01:38:11 Hilal Elver, representing  the City of Istanbul
01:39:51 Maria Carrascosa García, Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología, Barcelona

01:44:33 Closing Statement: Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, Government of Scotland