"What we eat and how we produce it on the fields and in the stables contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable food production and a balanced diet with more vegetables, fruit and nuts is good not only for our own health, but also for a healthy planet," says Johan Rockström, Director of PIK. The preservation of creation and thus sustainability is a central theme at the Kirchentag. This year the focus will be on reducing food waste throughout the production chain.
"We need to get out of coal and into renewable energy as soon as possible. We have now decided this for Germany, but this is only the beginning. As a scientist, I know that the change towards a carbon neutral economy must also succeed on roads and railways, and not least on farms," said PIK’s founding director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. At the five-day event, he discussed climate change and the German coal phase-out with Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and the political director of the NGO Germanwatch, Christoph Bals.
Weblink to the German Protestant Kirchentag's homepage: https://www.kirchentag.de/english/start/
