The food system is unhealthy, unsustainable, and inequitable, creating more costs than it creates in economic value. Over the past fifty years, changes in the food system have led to significant advancements in food security. However, these changes, which prioritized yield and calories, have created a USD 9 trillion global food system that generates negative health, environmental, and equity externalities estimated at USD 19.8 trillion. This session (in person and streaming) will explore investment and True Cost Accounting (TCA) as powerful tools that can redirect capital flows toward food systems that are nourishing, regenerative, and equitable. Panelists will discuss the importance of investment and TCA and what it will take to unlock their power to propel transformed food systems.

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Part 1: Using True Cost Accounting to Shift Policy, Behavior, and Investment

Panelists will present the opportunity to use True Cost Accounting (TCA), a tool that measures the true cost of food, including its impact on human and environmental health as a way to shift policy, behavior, and investment. Speakers include: Senior Vice President for the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation Roy Steiner, Sustainable Food Trust Founder Patrick Holden, President of WWF International Pavan Sukhdev, Impact Navigator at Tony’s Chocolonely Pavithra Ram, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food Ruth Richardson, and more to be announced soon! Moderated by Bloomberg's Amanda Little. More to be announced soon!

Part 2: Investment and Finance for Healthy and Sustainable Diets

Today, capital flows to the food system regardless of the degree to which it is produced and processed in ways that damage the environment and contribute to climate change. Panelists will explore how finance and investment can be redirected to make food systems more environmentally sustainable, nourishing, and socially just. Speakers include: World Business Council's Diane Holdorf, Executive Director of FAIRR Initiative Maria Lettini, founding member and Chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Eivind Lorgen, Head of Agricultural Livelihoods at the IKEA Foundation Petra Hans, and Director for Transformational Investing in Food Systems (TIFS) Initiative Rex Raimond, and the World Wildlife Fund's Joao Capari. Moderated by Bloomberg's Amanda Little.

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