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Food / Sustainability

Leveraging Responsible Investment for Sustainable Healthy Food Systems: Practises and Opportunities

Join academic experts for a webinar about institutional investment practices that can support sustainable healthy food systems in Australia.
Thursday 19th August, 2021
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Online
Free

This webinar will present the results of a recent research study designed to explore the extent to which responsible investment practices in Australia currently support sustainable and healthy food systems. The aim of this webinar is to highlight the potential role of superannuation funds and other investors in contributing to sustainable and healthy food systems and discuss current practice and potential opportunities for increasing action on sustainable and healthy food systems in Australia and globally.

This event is the final seminar of the Sustainable Food System funded by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, co-hosted by the Centre for Resources Energy and Environmental Law at the University of Melbourne and the Deakin University Institute for Health Transformation.

This 1-hour webinar will present the results of a recent research study designed to explore the extent to which responsible investment practices in Australia currently support sustainable and healthy food systems. The aim of this webinar is to highlight the potential role of superannuation funds and other investors in contributing to sustainable and healthy food systems and discuss current practice and potential opportunities for increasing action on sustainable and healthy food systems in Australia and globally.

Speakers include:

  • A/Prof Gary Sacks (Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University)
  • Dr Rachel Carey (Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne)
  • Prof Christine Parker (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
  • Ella Robinson (Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University)
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