Following on from our roundtable ’Sustainability in Nutrition and Dietetics’, we’ve pulled together some of the key resources and references discussed within the symposium. If you missed the live symposium, you can register to watch the recording.

COURSES

Sustainable Diets and Nutrition: Fundamentals for Human and Planetary Health. MyNutriWeb. CPD endorsed short online course with 5 modules. £150.

“Sustainability is an area that is applicable to the practice of all registrants. This course will aid registrants in gaining confidence to incorporate sustainability aspects into their practice and provide advice in respect to this. It is positive to see that the course considers different population groups and incorporates tests to check understanding.” – Association for Nutrition

GUIDELINES AND REPORTS

Transforming the Global Food System for Human Health and Resilience (2023). IPCC.  This report advocates for a significant shift in strategy for global food system transformation towards a focus on both human and planetary health.

Climate Change 2022 (2022). Intergovernmental panel of climate change (IPCC). Full report to assess the impacts of climate change on nature and humanity, and their capacities and limits for adaptation

Sustainable Diets Policy (2021). The British Dietetic Association. Policy statement prepared by a specially convened BDA working group

Delivering a net zero NHS (2020). NHS. This report provides a detailed account of the NHS’ modelling and analytics underpinning the latest NHS carbon footprint, trajectories to net zero and the interventions required to achieve that ambition.

Food Planet Health (2019). EAT Lancet. Summary report of the EAT-Lancet Commission

Net Zero – The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming (2019). Climate Change Committee. The Committee on Climate Change recommends a new emissions target for the UK: net-zero greenhouse gases by 2050

Sustainable healthy diets – Guiding principles (2019). Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organisation (WHO).  Report which aims to support the effects of countries as they work to transform food systems to deliver on sustainable healthy diet

Planetary boundaries (2015). Stockholm Resilience Centre. Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity

OTHER RESOURCES/FACTSHEETS

AICR’s Guide to a Plant-Based Diet. American Institute for Cancer Research.

Food and Climate Change without the hot air: Change your diet: the easiest way to help save the planet (2020). Sarah Bridle.

Sustainable Diets. BDA.

BDA Tips for a Sustainable Diet. BDA.

Vegetarian, vegan and plant-based diet. BDA

Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice (2022). Shireen Kassam, Zahra Kassam, Lisa Simon

HUEL

Newsletter – The Huel Healthcare Professional Insider

BDA SUSTAINABLE DIETS SPECIALIST GROUP

@BDA_Sustainable (Twitter) and @bda_sustainablediets (Instagram) for the specialist group

ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

Dr Christian Reynolds
Reader, Centre for Food Policy, City At George’s, University of London, UK

 @sartorialfoodie

Jessica Sansom
Sustainability Director at Huel®

 @jessica-sansom

James Collier
Co-founder and Chief Sustainable Nutrition Officer, Huel®

 @JamesCollier

Rosie Martin
Dietitian, UK

 @plantdietitianrosie

Professor Sarah Bridle
Chair in Food, Climate and Society at the University of York

 @sarahbridle

Duncan Williamson
Chief advisor on sustainable gastronomy at the Barilla Foundation, Head of advocacy and public affairs at Rainforest Alliance and trustee at Eating Better

 @duncan-williamson

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