Dear Mr. Seymour,
We’d like to recommend to you the attached short paper (3 pages) from ‘The Lancet’ on ‘Planet-friendly school meals: Opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems.’
An approach such as ‘Planet-friendly school lunches’ offers the possibility to turn a difficult policy area into a positive opportunity to improve child nutrition and health and life-relevant education, and to contribute to action on climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. Our experience suggests that children love to know they are contributing to the good of society as a whole in a meaningful way.
We hope you might consider this as a constructive development of this policy area.
Yours sincerely,
Joanna Santa Barbara, Co-Chair Nelson Tasman Climate Forum,
John Potter, professor, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University.
Lindsay Wood, Director, Resilienz, Ltd..